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    Does a SPD need a dedicated MCB?

    Thats from the ebay listing, it says it has PEN fault detection protection and GROUND fault detection protection, surely the second one is an RCD, but the email reply I got back from iON says it isn't built in. With all the chargers available, why would someone buy the cheapest chinesium...
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    Does a SPD need a dedicated MCB?

    Another thing I've just thought of, what about all the other RCBO's in the board, I've not had to touch them yet but if the charger is installed could the DC affect them, do they need changing to type A (if they aren't already) or even type B's. I honestly don't know why anyone would get...
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    Does a SPD need a dedicated MCB?

    Why would I be on the windup, not everyone is a goody two shoes. Anyway went today and found this label on the side of it, more confused than ever now. So does that mean it has type A/AC protection built into it or it needs it, I thought if it needed RCD protection it should be type B. We...
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    Does a SPD need a dedicated MCB?

    What I do find baffling though is this is meant to be the future, the government want everyone in little electric euro boxes but if I was doing a similar job to this for an independent customer I'd want about £2-3K to even think about getting involved, its not a line of work I would like to get...
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    Does a SPD need a dedicated MCB?

    I do care, I don't do dangerous stuff, I just don't do everything anyone tells me to do, if I think a reg is daft or over the top I'll do what I think is right, I use common sense instead of blind faith. The limited instructions I linked to earlier state that it has open PEN protection and...
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    Does a SPD need a dedicated MCB?

    TNC-S Type B Bloke says he doesn't care.
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    Does a SPD need a dedicated MCB?

    Most of thats rubbish, you must know that. If the immersion blew you would simply switch it off at the DP switch and carry on using the boiler circuit, apart from the fact the immersion is only used if the boiler breaks, not the other way round. As for blowing the PCB fuses, how? you could spur...
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    Does a SPD need a dedicated MCB?

    Yes I know but I live in the real world. Regs like this were brought about so you didn't piggy back them off something like a socket circuit that was already loaded. Lets take an immersion circuit, they used to run off a fused spur from the ring without any problem whatsoever, then someone said...
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    Does a SPD need a dedicated MCB?

    And yet in over 30 years of doing this the amount of cockups I've been called back to still sits at zero, not one loose connection, not one socket wired backwards. Yet virtually every installation I turn up to looks like its been wired by Stevie Wonder. People will miss my sort when we are...
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    Does a SPD need a dedicated MCB?

    Their sole purpose in the construction industry is to leach off the hard working tradesman whilst making his or her job intolerably harder. that goes for most industries also. You can clearly see this when a site manager slopes off for the day and everyone is left to their own devices, the...
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    Does a SPD need a dedicated MCB?

    This is more like the helpful advice I needed, it does sound utterly complicated though, I thought the future was electric but it seems its nothing but a ball ache. If an electrician cant fit a simple car charger without reams of red tape then who can? Lets be honest its no harder to connect up...
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    Does a SPD need a dedicated MCB?

    What do you think will happen if I don't bodge it? The person that gives us loads of easy well paid work will just get someone else in to do it the bodge way, but guess what, he will also get the new person to do all the easy well paid work as well and I'll end up sat at home staring at four...
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    Does a SPD need a dedicated MCB?

    I think the bottom left 3 pole 32A MCB feeds the SPD which is original to the installation. I was going to connect the car charger to the same MCB. Seems a waste the SPD hogging 3 precious ways all to itself.
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    Does a SPD need a dedicated MCB?

    Does a SPD need a dedicated way? I need an extra way in this unit for a 3 phase car charger As you can see its a small unit with no extra ways, the building is rented and the tenant is adamant that the board is not to be changed as he has been told no major alterations. We have already...
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    Loop into Fan

    Where is the loop connection? No good taking a 3 core to the switch if is wired in 3 plate at the ceiling rose.
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    £0 Pre-pay meter and EICR

    Happens on every job of ours, houses are usually empty for a year or so and they are always £300-£400 in debt mostly due to the standing charge rocking up. Then they expect the joiner or whoever to top the meter up out of his own pocket just so he can use his tools.
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    Shall I ask my sparky to run a 6mm or 10mm cable ?

    Don't try and feed multiple ovens off the same cable, you will end up with a consumer unit inside one of the cupboards.Much better to run one cable to each appliance whatever the sizes will be. As for the cables requiring plugs etc I would go off the ratings on the appliance, a 3kW oven on a...

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