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  1. prospark

    surge protection or not

    1/.please can anyone clarify whether it is now mandatory to install surge protection devices in domestic installations for new installations and or rewires. 2/.Also is it correct that if a lightening protection system is in place you need both type 1 and type 2 surge protection ?
  2. D

    Surge recorder/monitor

    Just interested where I could hire/buy a surge monitor/recorder, A friend of mine may be having supply voltage fluctuations (see my other post in tell us your faults.) Any help or advice, or suggestions. Thanks.
  3. D

    Surge protection

    I would like to know do you have to fit anti surge protection on solar pv on the AC and DC side to commerical installations
  4. D

    Type 1 Surge Protection - Second opinion required

    Hello chaps, With the advent of amendment 1 and Surge Protection playing a big part now I need a second opinion on a job I'm quoting for at the moment. I'll admit my experience with these devices is zero apart from the usual Type 3's that are common place now in homes. I am rewiring a church...
  5. D

    Surge Protection for Church

    Hi All, Can anyone suggest a wholeseller that sells Type 1 SPD's? I have tried all my usual places but cannot find anything other than the usual plug in type. I am quoting for a rewire of a Church, which obviously has a lightning conductor in the spire so it definately needs an SPD, but I...
  6. A

    Domestic

    Hi there, looking to get back on the tools after a spell out of the industry due to looking after a family member. Just recieved the new regs book and just wondering if domestic installations apply to Surge protective devices or not? it seems to me that it does not in most cases, but just wanted...
  7. W

    Surge protection?

    Hi Apart from the usual protection devices mcb's, rcd's, string fuses, etc are any of you fitting spd's to the a/c and d/c circuits, especially on large installs? Cheers
  8. W

    2391 questions regarding surge protection devices

    Hello, I would be grateful if anyone could check my answers for those two questions and see if it's correct or not? State the a) tests for insulation resistance to be undertaken on a 230V circuit containing surge protection devices which cannot be disconnected Test between L-E, L-N and L-N b)...
  9. La Poste

    What do you think caused this fault?

    An electricity firm should "accept liability" for damage caused to 400 houses by a power surge in Blackburn, the town's MP has said. ENW said the power surge was caused by a cable fault on the electricity network in the area at 10:00 GMT on Tuesday. BBC News - Shear Brow power surge: Straw...
    • La Poste
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    • cable fault network surge
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    • Forum: Australia
  10. M

    Surge protection

    Me: Hi, can I have price for a 12 way board with surge protection please. Edmunsons: Errrm, hang on I will just check....... No we dont have one. Me: Okay, what about a stand alone one I can use up front? Edmunsons: We dont have any, never been asked for them. Me: Really? Okay I will...
    • Mark_Burgess
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    • protection surge surge protection
    • Replies: 8
    • Forum: Australia
  11. D

    Surge protector cable length (quick question)

    Hello all. I'm hoping someone can answer this (probably simple) question I have... I just bought a surge protector mini extention cable to keep with my laptop. It comes with a moulded 2 meter cable, standard UK plug on the end of it, and on the bottom of the unit, the words: NON REWIREABLE...
    • dennis123123
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    • cable length question surge surge protector
    • Replies: 1
    • Forum: Australia
  12. R

    Surge protected extension leads trip rcds

    Spent hours today tracing a NE fault (IR=0.29Mohms) on ring main. Unplugged everything I could and then split the ring down. Eventually narrowed it down to three double sockets which seem to be on a spur. Different colours at start and end of spur so no doubt a jb under the floor somewhere...
    • ringer
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    • extension great leads plugged protected rcd rcds sockets surge trip
    • Replies: 1
    • Forum: Australia
  13. G

    Is there such thing as a double socket with built in surge protector

    After a double socket with surge protection to be used to supply a pc. Can you get such a thing.
    • geordie
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    • built double protection socket surge surge protector thing
    • Replies: 3
    • Forum: Australia
  14. 4

    domestic surge protection

    done a job lately for nedl, 200 houses in gateshead had a 500v power surge cos some thieving scrote robbed some copper from a sub that feeds the houses. people lost tv, computers, phone chargers, boilers etc anything with a circuit board. As we were testing the houses prior to the power going...
    • 4x4 mark
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    • class domestic protection surge surge protection where
    • Replies: 7
    • Forum: Domestic Electrician Forum
  15. E

    Solar PV Surge Protection

    Hello This is my first post, I am hoping someone can help. I am aware that we need surge protectors/string controllers for large solar pv systems, however I have been informed that for any install over 3.78kWp we need them. Does this sound correct? I know there is quite a lot of confusion...
  16. Rockingit

    Surge Protection

    OK, so ammendment 1...surge protection.... whatever the thoughts are, it's here, unlikely to go soon, so let's just all be big boys and get on with it. Sooo.....that being said; I understand what it does, what it's meant for, have read the regs..... what does it actually look like in practice...
    • Rockingit
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    • protection surge surge protection
    • Replies: 1
    • Forum: Australia
  17. S

    Surge protection on portable chiller

    i have been asked to install some kind of surge protection on a portable chiller it hase recently been subjected to some mains failures and is blowing internal fuses is three phase 32a an is about 11 kw im a bit stuck help:banghead:
  18. I

    Surge Protection

    Hey all, I came accross a video by tony cable and co breifly explaining surge protection protection and the requirements with the new regs amendment. It detailed the main cause of surges as being lightning strikes and Switching Electromagnetic Pulses (SEMPs) - man made; and how they can damage...
    • Infamous
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    • protection surge surge protection
    • Replies: 1
    • Forum: Australia
  19. L

    testing an extension lead with surge protection

    Just been doing some testing today including 6 brand new extension leads, first two tested ok 3rd one failed with low insulation resistance of around 0.250m ohms. It was then i noticed that this one had surge protection. Can anyone please explain why this would cause these results and how to get...
  20. N

    Power surge and fire

    How the hell can you prevent this , got a call from a hair salon saying the lights have flickered and gone off and weve lost the power and there a smell of burning got there 3 RCBO's tripped ,switched off ,whipped off cover of CDU all looked ok so quick Ze 0.71 tad high for TNCS , so quick...

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