18th edition draft now available for comment

[securespark]

Seriously, though - apart from amendments for new things, should not everything have been thought of by now?

Every day is a school day! I used to learn new stuff every day!

Plus, the regs are geared towards Euro stuff, so if things go tits up in their installations, our regs will be modified to take account of this.

 

[EFLImpudence]

Every day is a school day! I used to learn new stuff every day!

Yes, you did and I did.

Is that what you think is happening to those who make the rules?
Perhaps it is they who come here asking really basic questions.

Plus, the regs are geared towards Euro stuff, so if things go tits up in their installations, our regs will be modified to take account of this.

Not sure I understand.
Surely the only reason theirs would go tits up and ours wouldn't is because of our rules already being more stringent.


I haven't studied the new bits much but take this requirement for electrodes - it is because we now (or rather eventually - what happens in between?) have to protect consumers for the poor practice (economically driven) of the suppliers.
Will the cumulative cost, of fitting electrodes, to all consumers on a supply be more or less than the suppliers replacing their cables correctly?

 

[securespark]

It's just a way of keeping some manufacturing in the country....
I'm not sure really. I have come across several dicky TN-S supplies in my time.
One the DNO refused to repair and I ended up firing a rod in the ground.
As long as the rods aren't economically driven...
I shall get my outer garments...

What I meant by the Euro stuff was that over the years our regs have picked up more and more of their rules.

 

[EFLImpudence]

I'm not sure really. I have come across several dicky TN-S supplies in my time. One the DNO refused to repair

Well, yes, that's what I meant.

What I meant by the Euro stuff was that over the years our regs have picked up more and more of their rules.

Isn't that just harmonization?

 

[ban-all-sheds]

Will the cumulative cost, of fitting electrodes, to all consumers on a supply be more or less than the suppliers replacing their cables correctly?

Much less.



































To the suppliers.

 

[EFLImpudence]

Ah. I wondered why the rest of the page went blank.

 

[stillp]

That's the Robert Peston style of posting.

 

[securespark]

Isn't that just harmonization?

Harmonisation, Schmarmonisation, whatever...