Nicky Tesla
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but if there was a wooden floor and all taps n radiators were well out of reach, where would the shock path go from the switch?
Through your wet body, along the wet floor to the nearest path to earth it could find I reckonbut if there was a wooden floor and all taps n radiators were well out of reach, where would the shock path go from the switch?
I'm not quite sure where I said that? :_| headbangSo you`d be happy having mains switches at any point in your bathroom?
Jeez... :_|There's a world of difference between a kitchen and a bathroom with regard to safety.
There are a few regs which sometimes we fail to see the logic in, and there are others which are there to help us live that little bit longer. I stand by my statement regarding kitchens, you rather contradict yourself with the above statement regarding the ingress of water to a switch. It's highly unlikely, as you infer, that you would get a shock of a switch with wet hands, infact we've probably all turned the kitchen light off with wet hands at least once, so why treat the kitchen as a bathroom?Jeez... :_| The likelyhood of water ingressing within a switch to the point that there is a touch voltage 'floating' across the surface versus all those bonded steel sinks still in existence with trailing sockets non rcd'd...?
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I agree with you there, the choice of "colours" could have better thought out.......Like grey and black in 1.0mm 3 core and E
To come across regularly? ATM, I`m not doing a massive amount of 3phase.Name a scenario where 3 phase would be used on a 1.0mm three core & E please. A scenario that you are likely to regularly come across would be good.
If not then perhaps we can have some silly regs? ; \
But other countries do not have earthing like ours so you cannot really compare.Thank you for your useful and non argumentative (in a confrontational way) replies guys.As I said, i sometimes fail to see the logic in the 'banning' of the switch, when other countries allow it to be sited within.
Clearly there are 'regular' sized bathrooms where the situation doesn't apply, but there are also situations where a switch can be sited far enough away to be 'safe' for want of a better description.
no, the earthing arrangement abroad (or lack of) means a light switch in the bathroom is acceptable.I'm not sure how the typical UK earthing arrangment of a light switch will stop the ingress of water from a wet hand scenario Batty?
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