Isolation of Ring Final Circuit

[seftonbarn]

Here's one for you. In a foster home for naughty boys the client has a requirement to be able to "remove privileges" of TVs/PCs etc when necessary. They seek a means of doing this without having to get staff to use the Distribution Board. Would a DP switch of the correct capacity be the best solution. Are there any other considerations?

 

[monkeyelectric]

Here's one for you. In a foster home for naughty boys the client has a requirement to be able to "remove privileges" of TVs/PCs etc when necessary. They seek a means of doing this without having to get staff to use the Distribution Board. Would a DP switch of the correct capacity be the best solution. Are there any other considerations?

You could install a lockable rotary isolator in the circuit, is it a ring final Or radial?

 

[Shaun1987]

Take the ring final circuit out the distribution board and feed it via a contactor and use a normal switch to control it.

 

[MDJ]

I would agree on the contactor, however they want to isolate individual rooms, I suspect there is a ring supplying several bedrooms and they have a naughty kid in one who they want to punish by removing his tv priviliges, killing the whole ring would affect others, best to install a new radial to the room and have it going through a key switch somewhere, by the way is this child cruelty? lol

 

[GLENNSPARK]

theres another option here.....
hybrid circuit....that way both legs of the ring are isolated....from a single point....

 

[Toonlad]

Just trip the breaker, then all the rooms go off. The kid who messed up, has now punished the rest for his actions, will now get a good hiding off the rest. This happens a couple of times they realise dont mess up, or others will #uck your ---- up.:wink5:

 

[trev]

Sorry but all this messing about with different means of isolation is ridiculous. This job can be done with very little or no expenditure, Toonlad's method will be even more effective than my idea of just confiscating his stuff

 

[DPG]

DP switch 20a at a point you can get both legs together,(not the boys legs) just switch the Live on each leg.

??? Eh?

 

[Toonlad]

??? Eh?

Ehh comes after duh and before fuh..

yes i know i dont quite know whats going on with snowhead either lol

 

[varilite]

You are all approaching this from the complicated end, simply go from plug top feeding telly to keyswitch and then on to telly

 

[Toonlad]

These sort of places grip my grinner, they absolutely want for nothing.


Here is another solution - tell them to phone this number 08457 90 90 90 its the samaritans they give a #uck

 

[Andyfm]

Done something similar for a foster parent last year, the socket feeding the tv/playstation was fed from fused spur in the hall way so she could switch it off at bedtime and if he played up.

 

[applemac]

Keep the telly on but send in Gary glitter and jimmy saville to entertain them

 

[varilite]

Or as jimmy is dead Kevin Webster will do