Probably not, but then they would almost certainly have been pulled live because the alternative would be to knock off the whole board - and hence everything it supplies.
It's not contrary to what I've been talking about, which is a local means of isolation - i.e. the use of 'switch-fuses', rather than just fuses, as 'cutouts' in domestic installations.
Which would require a significant diluting amendment to the EAWR.
The matter of the (poorly drafted/conceived) petition was put to bed aboyt 4 pages ago. The subsequent discussion resulted from the fact that, back on page 3, I 'innocently' asked:
As for the petition and fuse-pulling, my understanding is that it already is 'legal' (in terms of safety legislation) for any 'adequately trained person' (not only 'DNO staff') to pull the fuses. Unless you want electricians who are not 'adequately trained' to be allowed to do it, what changes to legislation do you think the government need to be asked to enact? As far as I can see, if there is a problem it's that DNOs may try to argue that non-DNO personnel (no matter how trained) should not 'interfere with their property', which is a totally different matter.
Yes, in my opinion, and also the opinions of others who have posted in this thread.
Only, I imagine, if they were very badly designed, without that in mind.
Exactly, and I presume that was what westie was talking about. If I understood him correctly, he was suggesting that if DNOs changed to using cutouts with integral switches, that might present a problem in installing/changing them live. I still stick by what I said - i.e. that such a problem would only exist if they had been badly designed, without consideration of what westie and his colleagues would want to be able to do with them. Do you disagree?
Yep, that's a classic argument, particularly in relation to post-meter isolators. It's obviously a 'risk' - but given that we're talking about a switch which will be operated only once in a blue moon, I would expect the number of 'failures' due to the existance of a switch would be minute, even amongst millions of installed units, wouldn't you?
Of course it's 'a risk', but I'm suggesting that it would be a tiny one. In any event, if the design were such that a jammed/siezed switch did not prevent the cutout being opened, you'd then be in no worse a situation (hence at no greater risk) than if there had been no switch.
Yes I disagree.
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