BS 7288 British Standard that specifies residual current devices (RCDs) for socket outlets used in households and similar

[Jock from the north]

Without looking in regs have rcd spur units found their way back in book .I've been going through test sheets all day but I'll look after my spag boll.
531.3.4.1 bs7288 only provide additional protection.

 

[Dan]

Lads please keep it friendly for the sake of the forum.

 

[Pretty Mouth]

No, you wouldn't. But my point is that it may be making it clear that those circuit conductors aren't protected, whereas with an RCCB or RCBO upstream they obviously are. Don't forget that not everyone thinks as logically as you do, so that may be where the statement has originated from. Just my opinion.

Fair do's. I do use FCURCDs sometimes for additional protection for alterations where the customer hasn't the budget for a board change.

A recent example was some extra bits in a bathroom - LED mirror, towel rail, and a shower pump IIRC. I by-passed the existing bathroom lighting, and repurposed an old immersion point in the adjacent airing cupboard for the FCURCD, wiring everything bathroom-related downstream of it. That dealt with the additional protection.

I take your point though, a glance at the 1989 MK board would have suggested no A.P. to the bathroom, if someone wasn't aware of the RCD in the airing cupboard. It's not ideal, but it does the job.

 

[Dan]

Changed the title to this:
BS 7288 British Standard that specifies residual current devices (RCDs) for socket outlets used in households and similar