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Running 6mm twin & earth cable.
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<blockquote data-quote="binky" data-source="post: 510222" data-attributes="member: 490"><p>More a case of 'catch all' circumstances perhaps? Now, it has to be said that writing regs to cover every situation is plain damn hard, so leaving grey areas is easier than writing things in black and white and letting people interpret / apply common sense. If you write in B&amp;W and possibly miss a circumstance that leads to a failure / death, you risk being sued. So we are also suffering an increasingly 'risk adverse' society, ie no risk (to the author) is better than writing something that could be wrong. Prime example, the story of the lady who killed her dog in a microwave, because the adverts said it would do whatever her old oven did - who the hell dries a dog in an oven! She won her case when she sued the microwave company :shakehead</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="binky, post: 510222, member: 490"] More a case of 'catch all' circumstances perhaps? Now, it has to be said that writing regs to cover every situation is plain damn hard, so leaving grey areas is easier than writing things in black and white and letting people interpret / apply common sense. If you write in B&W and possibly miss a circumstance that leads to a failure / death, you risk being sued. So we are also suffering an increasingly 'risk adverse' society, ie no risk (to the author) is better than writing something that could be wrong. Prime example, the story of the lady who killed her dog in a microwave, because the adverts said it would do whatever her old oven did - who the hell dries a dog in an oven! She won her case when she sued the microwave company :shakehead [/QUOTE]
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