ADVICE - Qualifications to TEST house wiring ?

[JohnW2]

That's odd. Since the 15th, they have always followed a colour sequence AFAIR. ... The first copy of the 15th was red, the first 16th was red and the first 17th was red. ... The sequence is Red, Green, Yellow, Blue and Brown.

That's what I thought, so was also surprised, but ....

Kind Regards, John

 

[333rocky333]

 

[securespark]

Strange how the NIC is selling a book they don't believe in:
https://www.shop.niceic.com/18edition/18edition-publications

 

[securespark]

Where's the brown copy?

 

[JohnW2]

Strange how the NIC is selling a book they don't believe in:

Well, they might not 'believe in it', but ...

This book is vital for all involved in the electrical industry, including designers, installers, and those involved in testing and inspection of electrical installations.

Kind Regards, John

 

[securespark]

They're just jumping on the Profit Bandwagon. They know people will buy it, but what they have written goes directly against what an NIC bloke in the offices told me once.
He said they did not recognise the OSG at all, that all information was in the regs and the OSG was a waste of paper (both the book and the cash used to buy it)!

 

[EFLImpudence]

He said they did not recognise the OSG at all, that all information was in the regs and the OSG was a waste of paper (both the book and the cash used to buy it)!

No, that was me.

 

[JohnW2]

.... He said they did not recognise the OSG at all, that all information was in the regs and the OSG was a waste of paper (both the book and the cash used to buy it)!

I think there are a good few of us here (and elsewhere) who would agree with most of that!

As often discussed, one of the problems with the OSG is that it contains a lot of 'information' which is not in BS7671, but written in such a way that the unwary often come to think that it does relate to regulations (i.e. 'requirements') when it doesn't.

Kind Regards, John

 

[flameport]

The sequence is Red, Green, Yellow, Blue and Brown.

That sequence is still being followed, the difference is that both the 15th and 16th had the original (red) and four reprints to use all 5 colours, the 17th also started with red but has only two reprints (green, yellow) making the next one blue even though that is a different edition entirely.

 

[flameport]

Where's the brown copy?

 

[securespark]

 

[ban-all-sheds]

They're just jumping on the Profit Bandwagon. They know people will buy it, but what they have written goes directly against what an NIC bloke in the offices told me once.
He said they did not recognise the OSG at all,

Did he mean they don't know what it looks like?

that all information was in the regs

Indeed it is.

Just as is all the information in these:

and the OSG was a waste of paper (both the book and the cash used to buy it)!

Strange that they should sell, and require supplicants to buy, something they feel like that about.

Surely they aren't more interested in their own profits rather than morality, decency, honesty etc?

 

[JohnW2]

I thought it had been established that the comments about the OSG actually originated from EFLI, not a "NIC bloke"?

 

[muffking]

Just as is all the information in these:

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These books look interesting. Are they any good?

 

[securespark]

I thought it had been established that the comments about the OSG actually originated from EFLI, not a "NIC bloke"?

No, both EFLI and the bloke I spoke to in the NIC offices said pretty much the same thing.