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Little old lady has lived for 80 years and has never once had the above problem, nor does she know anyone who has. And neither do I. Why? Cos it happens so incredibly rarely that the risk is negligible. Also, little old lady is on state pension, so has very limited funds and does not want to spend unnecessarily, £70 is a lot of money to her. She wouldn't like to learn that her electrician was mis-selling her unnecessary items.
SPDs are there to help protect sensitive electronic equipment, I have not heard of them being touted as protection against direct lightning strikes of the magnitude that would destroy fixed wiring. Where are you getting this information from?
You're misrepresenting my argument. IF a surge event happens, and the SPD protects £5k worth of equipment (which it isn't guaranteed to do BTW), then it was money well spent. However, the odds of it happening are so incredibly slim as to be negligible. And even if they weren't, who am I to make that decision? It's up to my clients.
Without a link to back this comment up, this smells of fertiliser.
Why? Why should I make my clients spend £20 more than they have to, if they don't want to? If £20 is nothing to you, then send me £20 now.
This is a truly absurd comment.
Out of interest, before the 18th edition, were you forcing these oh-so incredibly important SPDs on your clients?
I don't know anyone who has had their house burnt down, nor do I know anyone that knows anyone.. I guess I don't need to bother having smoke alarms. I also don't know of anyone that has been injured or killed by an electric shock where they don't have RCD protection.. Guess I don't need RCD's.. I know loads of people who used to drive with no seat belt, don't know of anyone that ever got injured or killed because of not wearing a seat belt, guess I don't need to bother with that either..
Just look at car chargers and the importance of PEN fault protection, how incredibly rare would that be, yet its still a mandatory factor, by your logic we should not bother.
No I was not forcing SPD's, the problem is they were a niche item that was very expensive, because they introduced it and now thousands of them are being fitted they have become very cheap, just in the same way RCD's and RCBO's have. Just look at AFDD, when they make those mandatory they will come down massively in price.