17th edition RCD

[plugwash]

Even with RCBOs everywhere you still lose a whole floor at once if a RCD trips.

sadly because everyond has turned a blind eye to this RCD sockets have remained prohibitively expensive. The fact that british RCD sockets don't have a RCD protected output on the back hasn't helped either.

 

[333rocky333]

The fact that british RCD sockets don't have a RCD protected output on the back hasn't helped either.

What are foreign rcd sockets like then

May be the future,
Used as a first socket then continue Radial circuit fed from the back of it ,automatically rcd protecting the rest

Until someone decides to replace it, maybe tamperproof screws could be fitted

 

[plugwash]

American GFCI (thier equivilent of a RCD) sockets have two sets of terminals, one for incoming power and one for further sockets to br protected. They are also far more reasonablly priced.

I dunno what the situation is in continental europe. The impression I get is that if RCD sockets exist there at all they are even rarer than they are here.