Christmas Tree Lights

[Donkey_Dave]

Hello All,

Just attended a call from a client where we re-wired her house who phoned to say she received a nasty shock from the socket where she had plugged in her fairy lights.Usual thing, you've installed dodgy/unsafe wiring, Blah,Blah.
Turns out she had the string bunched in one hand, plugged in and got a wallop off of a broken lamp with the filament showing. Just make sure loved ones/ friends are aware of the dangers. I dread to think what would have happened if a kid was involved.
And the RCD tripped.

Have a safe Christmas,

Dave

 

[DPG]

It's about time mains strings of lighting were banned I reckon. Should be SELV no excpetions for domestic fairy lights. It's difficult for people to understand that although the bulbs may only be 4 volts, the first one will be connected to live. Daz

 

[Knobhead]

Just ban Christmas.

Problem solved.

 

[Adam W]

As much as I'd like to see Christmas banned (or at the very least trimmed back to a maximum of 2 weeks to include new year) it didn't do much for the popularity of Oliver Cromwell so I can't see many politicians wanting to adopt that policy.

As I said in the last thread on mains fairy lights, in the last edition of the II&TEE CoP (3rd edition I think) these were classed as 'class 00' and weren't approved for sale or use in the UK.

Apparently these are still on sale in pound shops. So what does it take for something to be officially 'banned'?

 

[MDJ]

Just ban Christmas.

Problem solved.

Oh no not Christmas

 

[Silly Sausage]

Adam, no one gives a flying $%£& any more!
Money rules!!!!!

 

[Adam W]

Adam, no one gives a flying $%£& any more!
Money rules!!!!!

Relating to what? Safety? Banning mains fairy lights? Banning Christmas? Banning going at the sherry before 5pm?

 

[Silly Sausage]

Well, where shall we start...
How many threads are there on here about the schemes?!?!

 

[dingledong]

if you want to get banned just start swearing and slagging everone off and you will get banned for a week or two

 

[midgetman]

there still on sale

 

[PEG]

...I am sorry lads,i refuse to be frightened of any product,whos' title contains the word "Fairy"...get a grip :icon12:

 

[Harni]

Considering kids like to play with christmas trees and bulbs are easy to break, you would of thought companies would of caught on to selling SELV lights with a marketing plot of being child friendly....unless they hang them selves from them of course!

 

[sparksburnout]

Well, where shall we start...
How many threads are there on here about the schemes?!?!

wots the schemes got to do with fairy lights????

 

[davesparks]

It's about time mains strings of lighting were banned I reckon. Should be SELV no excpetions for domestic fairy lights. It's difficult for people to understand that although the bulbs may only be 4 volts, the first one will be connected to live. Daz

It's not just the first one that is connected to live, if you break the last lamp you will have full mains voltage between the two pins

 

[DPG]

It's not just the first one that is connected to live, if you break the last lamp you will have full mains voltage between the two pins

Yeah, but the point I was making is that people may not see the danger because the bulbs (lamps, sorry!) are only rated at 3 or 4 volts). Daz