Supply Protective Device

[NoSparks]

You come to fill in the section of a PIR entitled "Supply Protective Device" but the supply protective device is sealed. Do you:

a) Break the seal to examin the device? (you are not allowed to break the seal!)

b) Take a guess, but in that case do you enter 60, 80 or 100 for the rated current?

c) Declare a limitation and just leave the section blank.

d) Waste time phoning the distributor (who probably doesn't know the answer anyway)

 

[Mr Mark Sparks]

if its not on it you can only record lim
as you say not worth phoning or breaking the seal

 

[scotsparky]

Limit it no other way. Iven if the carrier has a fugure on it you cannot garenteee the Distributor hasnt derated it.

 

[trebor]

I have to agree with the first two replies re LIM, as a retired EEB inspector I can confirm that the carrier markings are not indicative of the fuse ratings, there are two size carriers smal and large, the small is normally 60A but could be 80A but no more, the larger carrier is normally 100A but we had fuses affectionally known as fat 60A and 80A which would be fitted at the inspectors discretion eg for 16.00 tails.

NB it is not illegal to break seals for safety or emergency reasons, only abstraction of electricity is illegal

 

[NoSparks]

Thanks, that's what I thought. Its just that my NICEIC inspector gave me the impression, without actually saying anything, that I should have done better than to declare a limitation.