What you think of this contraption....
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/400V-3phase-16A-or-32A-5-Pin-Industrial-Socket-Distribution-board-Hook-Up/251613893618?_trksid=p2047675.c100005.m1851&_trkparms=aid%3D222007%26algo%3DSIC.MBE%26ao%3D1%26asc%3D20140122125356%26meid%3D6e91873b54054ccca236d3c5afd187eb%26pid%3D100005%26rk%3D2%26rkt%3D6%26sd%3D251559291581&rt=nc
Someone i know wants a 32A socket installed. It is in an industrial setting...
I am [rightly or wrongly] not at all interested in the viewpoint that "industrial settings do not require an RCD" [for reasons that i am perfectly well aware of]
You see, where this will be installed, it is "reasonably foreseeable" that a flexible cable [armour or conduits or whatever, would not be practical as the machine is portable in nature] could well be crushed or whatever....
Sooooo, if someone got hurt, i for one am not too keen to have arguments with a judge concerning the meaning of "an instructed person" etc.... Be much easier to say, and show, that you had taken all reasonable precautions than trying a defence based on semantics......
Just thought it would be cheaper and easier than buying a socket AND an enclosure AND a 4 pole rcd.
What you all think?? Looked a bit cheap and nasty to me..... I know that the socket will only have occasional use, but cheap and nasty does not appeal to me.
Oh, before i forget, the machine does not really need a means of emergency isolation as there are no moving parts, it is a welding set, BUT the socket will be right next to an existing isolator that is now redundant and will feed nothing but this socket, so that can act as the means of isolation assuming you do not count pulling out the plug..
john....
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/400V-3phase-16A-or-32A-5-Pin-Industrial-Socket-Distribution-board-Hook-Up/251613893618?_trksid=p2047675.c100005.m1851&_trkparms=aid%3D222007%26algo%3DSIC.MBE%26ao%3D1%26asc%3D20140122125356%26meid%3D6e91873b54054ccca236d3c5afd187eb%26pid%3D100005%26rk%3D2%26rkt%3D6%26sd%3D251559291581&rt=nc
Someone i know wants a 32A socket installed. It is in an industrial setting...
I am [rightly or wrongly] not at all interested in the viewpoint that "industrial settings do not require an RCD" [for reasons that i am perfectly well aware of]
You see, where this will be installed, it is "reasonably foreseeable" that a flexible cable [armour or conduits or whatever, would not be practical as the machine is portable in nature] could well be crushed or whatever....
Sooooo, if someone got hurt, i for one am not too keen to have arguments with a judge concerning the meaning of "an instructed person" etc.... Be much easier to say, and show, that you had taken all reasonable precautions than trying a defence based on semantics......
Just thought it would be cheaper and easier than buying a socket AND an enclosure AND a 4 pole rcd.
What you all think?? Looked a bit cheap and nasty to me..... I know that the socket will only have occasional use, but cheap and nasty does not appeal to me.
Oh, before i forget, the machine does not really need a means of emergency isolation as there are no moving parts, it is a welding set, BUT the socket will be right next to an existing isolator that is now redundant and will feed nothing but this socket, so that can act as the means of isolation assuming you do not count pulling out the plug..
john....
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