Hi there...
At a job yesterday and there were 2 x CU's. One of them being soley just for the heating system, 5 x radials and these were controlled via contractor/timeclock setup... the heat system consisted of a foil baked heating mat in the ceiling in each room (new one on me, but worked pretty well, made by ICI) with a stat in each room also.
At present there is no RCD protection on this CU, didnt have to work on that one so didnt affect me.
(This was on a domestic property)
But I'm thinking if this was done on a new install how would you go about it, as obviously you will need RCD protection due to the heating mat sat right on the ceiling. BUT then it wouldnt work because every time the contactor kicked in it would trip he RCD ?
Any thoughts please,
Sy
At a job yesterday and there were 2 x CU's. One of them being soley just for the heating system, 5 x radials and these were controlled via contractor/timeclock setup... the heat system consisted of a foil baked heating mat in the ceiling in each room (new one on me, but worked pretty well, made by ICI) with a stat in each room also.
At present there is no RCD protection on this CU, didnt have to work on that one so didnt affect me.
(This was on a domestic property)
But I'm thinking if this was done on a new install how would you go about it, as obviously you will need RCD protection due to the heating mat sat right on the ceiling. BUT then it wouldnt work because every time the contactor kicked in it would trip he RCD ?
Any thoughts please,
Sy
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