The Memera 2000 is pretty good, and RCBOs are readily available.
Apart from being old, do you think there is anything wrong with it?
Older installation: RCD protecting oven circuit
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The Memera 2000 is pretty good, and RCBOs are readily available.
Apart from being old, do you think there is anything wrong with it?
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why anyone would want to waste money on an rcbo to protect an oven circuit, I don't know!
put the money towards a new cu at some point
put the money towards a new cu at some point
For what it is, nothing wrong with it. Was one of the better quality ones available at the time.
It doesn't comply with BS7671 now, but neither do the majority of other consumer units from the 1990s.
It's not just the oven. It's also supplying the gas hob (via a hidden socket which I want to protect.)
Also, oven = large metallic parts that you touch all the time...
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Whilst RCD protection is now a requirement for new installations i really think your over worrying about it, if the metal case of the oven became live it would short directly to earth and trip the MCB. Also what about the other non-RCD circuits, do you have any metal (chrome/brass) light switches and what about the immersion heater / whirlpool bath (water & electricity eeek!)
Seriously if that were my house I wouldn't even be worrying about it, probably would about the whirlpool bath though as i wouldn't be getting in that if it wasn't on an RCD, however if you really do want to RCD protect the oven circuit then just have an electrician come and move the oven MCB over to the RCD side of the board - job done.
Well, that is your opinion.
However, regulations have been introduced in Australia to "protect" ALL who work on a domestic installation, including householders who might punch a nail through a wall or persons working in a ceiling space who might nail something inadvertently into a cable.
Again, the regulations concerned HAVE been introduced in Australia because DEATHS have resulted from circuits not having such interference protection.
(https://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-03-17/young-men-who-died-in-insulation-scheme/5322168).
In which case protect all the lighting circuits and not 1 appliance
All new and extended Lighting circuits in Australia have been required to be "protected" by RCDs/RCBOs for about the last ten years - since after the Coroners Report into the above mentioned deaths.
Now, (since 2018) all new/replaced fixed/hard wired appliances also require such "protection" - as well as user accessible socket outlets (of course).
@FrodoOne - Why do you keep quoting stuff from Australia, this forum applies to the UK? I don't disagree with your opinion but there is no requirement here to add RCD protection to existing installations or circuits without it, unless work is carried out on them at which point that circuit/installation should be brought up to current standards.
My initial post on this matter was in response to
Hence it is not such a silly idea to install RCDs for ovens (and lighting circuits), and there are reasons for doing so.
However, it may be that UK authorities will wait for similar deaths to happen "locally" before amending regulations there ?
I can assure you that the Grenfell Tower fire was noted here and triggered a review of how local regulations with regard to cladding were being applied (or not).
There are now quite a few buildings here which will need to be "re-clad" and those investigations were triggered (largely) by an event in another country.
and I then pointed out that, because of certain unusual deaths in Australia, certain standards had been "raised" here, for new and amended installations.
Hence it is not such a silly idea to install RCDs for ovens (and lighting circuits), and there are reasons for doing so.
However, it may be that UK authorities will wait for similar deaths to happen "locally" before amending regulations there ?
I can assure you that the Grenfell Tower fire was noted here and triggered a review of how local regulations with regard to cladding were being applied (or not).
There are now quite a few buildings here which will need to be "re-clad" and those investigations were triggered (largely) by an event in another country.
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