phil d
Well-known member
We all complain about the lack of proper skills these days and magazine articles continue to deny the problem, moreover they defend the use of short courses as a perfectly satisfactory practice, well how's this for a lack of knowledge, not only on the part of the author, but also on the part of the magazine!
In the photo's page of June's Professional Electrician there is a photo of a red carrier from a service head, it has been opened and reveals a piece of tubular metal, the comment from the poster is "interesting use of steel tube for a main fuse", followed by the comment from the magazine, "niceic inspector says, confusing the missing link, reg referall overcurrent protective device 430.3"
Now there are 2 points here, 1 a red carrier is red to denote that it does have a solid link fitted, usually when the premise is fed from for example, a Ryefield board and the fuse is located there, or where there are 2 meters, one in a service room and the other in the flat, this is quite common in certain area's, the fuse being in the service room.
Point 2, we are constantly being told not to pull service fuses, ok, we do occasionally, but for good reason, if filling in an eicr for example, you'd normally put the value stated on the carrier, followed by NV in the box where it asks for supply fuse rating, pulling a sealed service fuse just to ascertain the fuse value is hardly justified in my opinion.
It's worrying that somebody out there is pulling one of these and wondering why it has no fuse in it, I wonder if he rang the DNO? Another interesting one was that the same type of thing appeared in the magazine around a year ago and I actually wrote in stating why red carriers were used, surely you'd think they'd mention this as there seems to be a distinct lack of knowledge concerning these red carriers.
In the photo's page of June's Professional Electrician there is a photo of a red carrier from a service head, it has been opened and reveals a piece of tubular metal, the comment from the poster is "interesting use of steel tube for a main fuse", followed by the comment from the magazine, "niceic inspector says, confusing the missing link, reg referall overcurrent protective device 430.3"
Now there are 2 points here, 1 a red carrier is red to denote that it does have a solid link fitted, usually when the premise is fed from for example, a Ryefield board and the fuse is located there, or where there are 2 meters, one in a service room and the other in the flat, this is quite common in certain area's, the fuse being in the service room.
Point 2, we are constantly being told not to pull service fuses, ok, we do occasionally, but for good reason, if filling in an eicr for example, you'd normally put the value stated on the carrier, followed by NV in the box where it asks for supply fuse rating, pulling a sealed service fuse just to ascertain the fuse value is hardly justified in my opinion.
It's worrying that somebody out there is pulling one of these and wondering why it has no fuse in it, I wonder if he rang the DNO? Another interesting one was that the same type of thing appeared in the magazine around a year ago and I actually wrote in stating why red carriers were used, surely you'd think they'd mention this as there seems to be a distinct lack of knowledge concerning these red carriers.
