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Oh please! Not the Part P Police! Anything but that! I did all the proper tests and certs and I am properly qualified!
I swear I've never stacked shelves in Tesco or any other supermarket, I've never been in IT. All I've ever been is an electrician and now I'll be dragged off for "re-education" in a gulag style training centre!
Goodbye cruel world
:)
 
Oh bugger! Yesterday I installed a few extra sockets for an old lady and 2 outside lights for a neighbour. Best get on to the DNO then to let them know about these potentially massive extra loads then.
Who's been telling you this load of old crap mate?
It was an electrician I work with a lot was on a car charging point course last week and was the NIC instructor that told them they must inform the DNO every time they install a charge point.
 
It was an electrician I work with a lot was on a car charging point course last week and was the NIC instructor that told them they must inform the DNO every time they install a charge point.
A training course ran by the enemy. Good grief I wonder how much they stiffed your mate out of for that. Did he get a nice shiny bit of paper that he can proudly show the world and some nice stickers for his van (As you can probably tell I'm not a great admirer of NIC)
As I understand it these electric vehicle charging points are on a 32 amp supply so if we apply the same "logic" if I install a new 32A RFC in a building then I should be informing the DNO.
See what I mean about the NIC talking a load of crap?
 
A training course ran by the enemy. Good grief I wonder how much they stiffed your mate out of for that. Did he get a nice shiny bit of paper that he can proudly show the world and some nice stickers for his van (As you can probably tell I'm not a great admirer of NIC)
As I understand it these electric vehicle charging points are on a 32 amp supply so if we apply the same "logic" if I install a new 32A RFC in a building then I should be informing the DNO.
See what I mean about the NIC talking a load of crap?
He isn't with the NIC he uses elecsa but it probably more a way they can keep a register of charge points so either the DNO or government can tax you for charging your car in the future.
 
Dogwind sounds about right, or bull****, either is correct for this thread lmao
Oh mate you are so witty and obviously extremely funny you are wasted as an electrician when there is space for more stand up comedians. I could hardly read the writing with the tears of laughter running down my face. Keep up the good work you must be doing.
 
Oh mate you are so witty and obviously extremely funny you are wasted as an electrician when there is space for more stand up comedians. I could hardly read the writing with the tears of laughter running down my face. Keep up the good work you must be doing.
Cheers, I am glad you have a sence of humour, not many wanabees have.
 
As per usual the IET weren’t slow at spotting a profit. E54 I’m surprised you didn’t mention this.

[ElectriciansForums.net] TT earth rod to shed or non connected garage..advice please
 
Yeah, .....very slow!! lol!!

It's all a bloody farce isn't it, a course on how to install a radial socket outlet, and now 55 Quid
to tell/show a qualified electrician how to install a 32A plug, or 35 quid to tell/show an IET member!!!

And this from the very people that are supposedly representing the electrical industry. The IET have been going down hill for a number of years now, ''Electrical'' isn't even a part of the new name it's given itself!! Pass the BUILDING SERVICES area of the institute including BS 7671 over to CIBSE, leave the rest to IET!!
 
Thanks for your replies, its been driving me mad trying to find it written down anywhere, i also had a nic electrician telling me the other day he was told he had to do an earth bond to a lightning condutor on a house which i feel isnt right, if it did get struck by lightning then that could then travel through all the earthing into the house, and unless i am wrong i think a lightning conductor is sort of like a TT rod and you are told never to combine TNCS PME earthing to a TT system with a connecting earth!

Where are you getting this nonsense from?

Lightning conductors are an ECP and should be connected to the MET by a main bond.

Adding earth rods with a good Ra to the origin of a PME installation is a very good idea.

Just seen this thread and have to say I have never understood the requirement to main bond a lightning conductor. Yes it is an ECP but it is on the outside of the building and does not enter the zone of equal potential,being outside it is surrounded by the general mass of earth so what is the point of bonding it? I looked into this following an EICR on a church,and it seems that main bonding a LC should only be carried out with reference to other british standards,and with the advise of a LC specialist....which is beyond the scope of a 'normal' electrician. I have to say also that I have NEVER seen a main bonded LC! Now I note lack of a bond on an EICR as a code 3 and add that the guidance of an LC specialist should be sought.
 

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