Shaver socket to 3 pin adapter?

[EFLImpudence]

Isn‘t the current minimum distance from a bath/shower 2.5 m rather than the old 3 m?

Yes since latest amendment.

 

[winston1]

So the regs got it wrong? What next? Ban 13amp sockets light circuits.

 

[SUNRAY]

So the regs got it wrong? What next? Ban 13amp sockets light circuits.

Do you interpret every amendment as wrong?

 

[winston1]

Not necessarily.

 

[SUNRAY]

Not necessarily.

What is your criteria for deciding which has been wrong and which hasn't?
I'll assume it's entirely based on whether you agree with it or not.

 

[Taylortwocities]

So the regs got it wrong? What next? Ban 13amp sockets light circuits.

The regs didn’t get it wrong. They reduced the distance.
I don’t understand your point.

Oh and a Happy New Year.

 

[FrodoOne]

For information re Australian regulations: -

Distance between water and power points

Regulations in Australia restrict where you're able to position power points in relation to sinks and taps. Find out what the rules say, and how far your power points will need to be from your kitchen sink.

build.com.au

Switches and sockets in wet areas

This advisory note addresses some common non-compliances found when Fair Trading inspectors conduct inspections of electrical metering installations.

www.fairtrading.nsw.gov.au

 

[securespark]

Isn‘t the current minimum distance from a bath/shower 2.5 m rather than the old 3 m?

That used to be the distance between a socket and a shower tray in a bedroom, but I don't know if it's current.

 

[securespark]

Do you interpret every amendment as wrong?

Not necessarily.

You appear to present your opinion of 7671 as fact.

I have said to you before, if you do not like the contents of 7671, then you should contact the relevant people.

Have you done that?

What was their reply?

 

[EFLImpudence]

Maybe he (or someone else) did and they reduced the socket distance to 2.5m.

Is there a reason for this revelatory move?

 

[DetlefSchmitz]

One *might* guess that they noticed that no-one in the rest of Europe or the USA was dying of things plugged in in the bathroom, so they are 'inching' the distance down until they can remove the UK exception to the standard rule book. If they go slowly enough they can detect the sudden vast increase in bathroom deaths, and stop doing it.

 

[JohnW2]

Isn‘t the current minimum distance from a bath/shower 2.5 m rather than the old 3 m?

It is -= but so what?

Kind Regards, John

 

[JohnW2]

It is not a given that a 30mA RCD will prevent death from electric shock.

Quite so - "not a given", even in people with perfectly normal/healthy hearts.

Move away from that situation to those with 'heart disease' (very many of who will not be aware of that" and the 'reassurance' provided by 30 mA RCD protection gets progressively less. There are a good few people around in whom a shock of just a milliamp or three could easily prove fatal.

Kind Regards, John