Hi, I'm at a job where there is 4x16 amp sockets protected by 4x16 amp rcbos in a bollard, the customer now wants 6 amp rcbos cause he wants to limit what people are using can you do this? I suppose it will just trip if people use more than 6 amps
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What a load of bollards
Yes you can do this and yes the circuit breaker will trip if overloaded. It will be a safe circuit within the design parameters of the wiring regulations.
Is this a practical approach, no, because it is effectively designing the circuit to fail and causing a circuit breaker to trip regularly is not ideal as they will have a much shorter lifetime and so need replacement.
Informative signage would help but it is still not ideal from a practical perspective.
Murdoch has the better, shorter answer, cover yourself.
Is this a practical approach, no, because it is effectively designing the circuit to fail and causing a circuit breaker to trip regularly is not ideal as they will have a much shorter lifetime and so need replacement.
Informative signage would help but it is still not ideal from a practical perspective.
Murdoch has the better, shorter answer, cover yourself.
What is being used that the owner wants to limit the use of ?
electricity?
Yeah ok
I should have said what types and sizes of appliances ... You'd think after all my time on here and years of wading through City and Guild's ambiguous syntax, I would have learned to construct a concise and specifically worded sentence wouldn't you ?
Blimey that pic kicks my attempt at humor into touch, I honestly thought you had spelt boards as bollards, oh well never mind eh.
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Yeah ok
You'd think after all my time on here and years of wading through City and Guild's ambiguous syntax, I would have learned to construct a concise and specifically worded sentence wouldn't you ?
More the opposite .... its wading through the antiquities of BS 7671 that I hate
looking at the back ground in that picture is a caravan site !
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No just general power to a boar yard
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No but we do a lot of work within caravan sites
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Were all friends on here
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Easy mistake lol
Protective devices shouldn't really be used as current-limiting devices.
fit pre-payment meters to each socket.
Assume that you mean a boat yard. Fitting 6A MCBs will stop the use of some power tools. Is that really what your customer wants?
You need to find out what the real reason is for wanting to limit the supply.
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