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Maybe - I don't know. Having just had a quick look at the Argos website, of the products which make a statement about this (one way or the other), only 2 out of 43 (about 5%) 'pure' fridges say that they are suitable for outbuildings, the other 41 (95%) saying that they are not suitable...

Yes, maybe (and I think I have previously mentioned that possibility) - but I've just made my point about all there "maybe"s in my previous post :-)

Again, maybe ... but one really should not have to consdier all these guesses! The only thing I can think of is that it's the sort of thing that is very familiar to New Zealanders - so that, unlike us, they 'understand without the need for guesses or "maybe"s ??

Again, you may be right. However, if those indicators (whether they both be LEDs or whatever) have any significance in terms of what might be called 'safety' issues, I would personally be a bit nervous about not understanding for sure what they meant :-)

As has been said, you need to discuss this with the electrician who you will be expected to 'sign off' the work'. However, if that electrician is sensible/competent, he/she will probably (hopefully!) tell you that you don't really need two cables, and that one of just 4mm² would very probably...

Some people would say that, but not very usefully, since it is a 'fait accomplis' that does not have those things.

That's how it should be, but your eyesight must be better than mine, since I still can't convince myself that such is how it is :-) If that fairly fat neutral connected to the right-most used terminal in the middle neutral bar is coming from that B40 circuit,then I agree it';s connected to the...

I find it very difficult to work out from that photo what is going on with the neutrals. On the face of it, it rather looks as if the RH RCD is being fed from the RH neutral bar (which makes no sense) and that it's neutral output goes to the middle bar (which also doesn't make much sense), and...

Yes, maybe - but it depends upon what you mean by "whether or not there is power" ... If you mean "power on the output of the device", then is that materially different from "whether or not the switch contacts are open"? On the other hand,if you mean "power on the input of the device", I'm not...

Yes, that's another possibility,even though it looks the same as the one on the right, which presumably IS an LED. I must say that, assuming that such is what the labelling means, an LED could display 'black' - but I guessed that was perhaps the 'apparent colour' when an LED was not...

Fair enough, so are you suggesting that "A/P" may mean "Alive/Phase" ? My three phases were orginally labelled as A, B & C (and with red, blue and green coloured disks). Although when the supplier installed an isolator they labelled that outputs asL1/L2/L3, they also attached A/B/C markers...

If I understand your comment correctly .... The English language is complex, and certainly not without its ambiguities ... I suspect that RandomGrinch used the word "them" not as a plural but, rather (just as people use "they" and "their") as a singular gender-neutral alternative to to...

I can't deny that those words have the correct initial letters, but ..... :-)

My goodness! :) Who knows?!¬ Your guess may be right, but I'd put no money on it! Do we know (or does a New Zealander know) what"A/P" is? Kind Regards, John

Glad it's not just me! I wonder if the average 'man in the street' in NZ understands? Interesting!

Is it just me, or is it somewhat less than clear what those two LEDs indicate?

His socket tester apparently said that they were, and it's hard to see how such a device could get that wrong.

In fact, in most situations having L & N reversed will not cause problems. The greatest 'risk' is probably that if there are switches which switch only the L (what 'they think is L'!), things may remain live when one thinks they aren't, because they have been 'switched off'. I don't think...

I think this is probably somewhat confusing the issue :) In order to create 'permitted zones' (per 522.6.202) it is necessary for the "point, accessory or switchgear" to have known and visible dimensions. That's straightforward enough for an accessory (or item of switchgear) but, I would...

Yes, you could consider a socket etc. as being"a point of utilisation", but there's no need to do so, since the reg lso applies to "accessories" (and defines the 'permitted zones' in relation to the dimentsions of the accessory, not of any "point(s)". As you go on to illustrate, when you write...