Please Help L3 Design Project Selv

[Mark Wright]

Hi, i'm currently doing my Level 3 design project and it's going to be tricky with the coronavirus and lack of contact with Tutor and other students.

Its the Hotel Swimming pool one

and I have to select luminaries for the cafe pool.

I haven't chosen my luminaries but I'm thinking to do it all with SELV 12V now how do I do cable calculations and Max Demand for a Selv circuit? Also what cable should I use, I was thinking FP200 as it's a public area is this ok for Selv?

You may laugh at my suggestion but any help would be great.

 

[Mark Wright]

After further looking Zone 2 only needs Selv if it is not protected by a RCD can anyone confirm this?

 

[davesparks]

Thanks for the reply's the questions are
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Basically I would like to get started and do some calcs etc but I can't even find suitable lights

Ideally if I was doing this for real I would like to use Selv max of 50v and LSF cable - I think FB200 is LSF

but I can't find any kind of Selv light that would be suitable for this setup also can't find any info for calcs on voltage drop of a Selv cable.

I suppose I can just use some normal high IP lights as there on the ceiling.

but any advice would be great

The voltage drop calculation is the same at any voltage.

Yes FP200 is LSF, but so are a lot of other cable types which are more suitable for the application.
You can get LSF singles, T&E, SWA, flex and flexshield type cable

 

[Mark Wright]

I probably can get away with not using Selv to me its not doing it properly, but if I did use Selv you mentioned Voltage drop problems could you just expand on that.

 

[SparkyChick]

Voltage drop is dependent on the length of the cable and the current flowing through it.

So, longer = higher drop... higher current = higher drop.

Lower voltage = higher current for the same power. Work out the current for a 50w 240v lamp and a 50w 12v lamp and that will make it clear.

As for the 'not doing it properly'. There are very specific cases where SELV is mandated, for most other cases an LV supply is totally acceptable and is preferred for the reasons that should become obvious when you run the numbers above.

 

[Mark Wright]

Voltage drop is dependent on the length of the cable and the current flowing through it.

So, longer = higher drop... higher current = higher drop.

Lower voltage = higher current for the same power. Work out the current for a 50w 240v lamp and a 50w 12v lamp and that will make it clear.

As for the 'not doing it properly'. There are very specific cases where SELV is mandated, for most other cases an LV supply is totally acceptable and is preferred for the reasons that should become obvious when you run the numbers above.

Thanks for your replies, when I say properly I mean adhere to the Regs, it seems I can only just get away with it being in Zone 2 and not needing SELV, one other member also asked about this on the forum, one of the later questions asks you to draw a SELV transformer makes you wonder.......

 

[SparkyChick]

This is what the regs say about protection for safety and the application of protective measures against electric shock.

"702.410.3.4.3 Zone 2
One or more of the following protective measures shall be employed:
(i) SELV (Section 414), the source for SELV being installed outside zones 0, 1 and 2. However, it is permitted to install the source for SELV in zone 2 if its supply circuit is protected by an RCD having the characteristics specified in Regulation 415.1.1

(ii) Automatic disconnection of supply (Section 411), using an RCD having the characteristics specified in Regulation 415.1.1 NOTE: Where a PME earthing facility is used as the means of earthing for the electrical installation of a swimming pool or other basin, it is recommended that an earth mat or earth electrode of suitably low resistance, e.g. 20 ohms or less, be installed and connected to the supplementary protective equipotential bonding.

(iii) Electrical separation (Section 413), the source for electrical separation supplying only one item of current using equipment and being installed outside zones 0, 1 and 2. However, it is permitted to install the source in zone 2 if its supply circuit is protected by an RCD having the characteristics specified in Regulation 415.1.1."

If you're worried about things like IP rating, you can get away with IPX2 fittings so you don't even need anything special unless it's outside or you're going to jetwash them.

 

[Mark Wright]

Assuming the Ceiling is Zone 2 we don't even know the height of the room and if there's a diving board it would have to be even higher I.e the ceiling or the walls could be Zone 1 needing SELV.
Looking at the Drawing scale midway up the walls must be Zone 1 breaching the Regs if you put LV lights there.

This is what the regs say about protection for safety and the application of protective measures against electric shock.

"702.410.3.4.3 Zone 2
One or more of the following protective measures shall be employed:
(i) SELV (Section 414), the source for SELV being installed outside zones 0, 1 and 2. However, it is permitted to install the source for SELV in zone 2 if its supply circuit is protected by an RCD having the characteristics specified in Regulation 415.1.1

(ii) Automatic disconnection of supply (Section 411), using an RCD having the characteristics specified in Regulation 415.1.1 NOTE: Where a PME earthing facility is used as the means of earthing for the electrical installation of a swimming pool or other basin, it is recommended that an earth mat or earth electrode of suitably low resistance, e.g. 20 ohms or less, be installed and connected to the supplementary protective equipotential bonding.

(iii) Electrical separation (Section 413), the source for electrical separation supplying only one item of current using equipment and being installed outside zones 0, 1 and 2. However, it is permitted to install the source in zone 2 if its supply circuit is protected by an RCD having the characteristics specified in Regulation 415.1.1."

If you're worried about things like IP rating, you can get away with IPX2 fittings so you don't even need anything special unless it's outside or you're going to jetwash them.

 

[Gawain]

The celling of the pool is approx 2.7/2.8m from the floor and therefore is outside of zones. The walls east, north and west are zone 2. The south wall with changing rooms is just outside the zones.
The cables in which you can use have been pre decided for you so too has the the containment method.
The only place I used selv was for the plunge pool as there's physically no other way to get lighting and had the junction box inside the pump Room.

 

[Mark Wright]

The celling of the pool is approx 2.7/2.8m from the floor and therefore is outside of zones. The walls east, north and west are zone 2. The south wall with changing rooms is just outside the zones.
The cables in which you can use have been pre decided for you so too has the the containment method.
The only place I used selv was for the plunge pool as there's physically no other way to get lighting and had the junction box inside the pump Room.

Dude your right it says the ceiling is 2.4m above ffl so only just in Zone 2 Thanks

 

[Gawain]

Sorry, I made a boo boo! The 3 walls are within zone 1 not 2 (thinking of rooms with bath/shower ?), and so the south one is zone 2 just. No given height for plunge pool but as the plans show a level floor and steps leading to plunge then you can guess the celling height is more likely to be less than 2m.
As for fitting lights along the walls as suggested, why? You can use 240v across the celling which will help with that practically impossible 30m max circuit lengths

 

[Mark Wright]

and I think its

Sorry, I made a boo boo! The 3 walls are within zone 1 not 2 (thinking of rooms with bath/shower ?), and so the south one is zone 2 just. No given height for plunge pool but as the plans show a level floor and steps leading to plunge then you can guess the celling height is more likely to be less than 2m.
As for fitting lights along the walls as suggested, why? You can use 240v across the celling which will help with that practically impossible 30m max circuit lengths

I'm just going with Ceiling lights now but technically Zone 2 is meant to be 2.4m from the floor isn't it? Not exactly happy but......

 

[Gawain]

Haven't got books on me atm and CBA to go to van to get them ?, but I'm pretty sure that anything above 2.5m in height is outside zones. The height of the main pool is over over 2.5m to celling.
The zones go outwards, not upwards.

 

[SparkyChick]

Zone 2 runs from the floor to a height of 2.5m above finished floor level.

 

[Gawain]

Mind you, I did only get 70% on special locations section of 18th ? but I did pass with 88.3% as a trainee ???

 

[westward10]

As above you need to remember just because a wall falls within a zone its full vertical height may be outside of it.