17th Edition Update

[securespark]

Hi guys!

Been busy & also been away in Rotherham (at Lowes) to do my 17th update.

Really upset.

I got one question wrong...

 

[Spark123]

Is Rotherham really that bad?

 

[securespark]

Something must've distracted me...

 

[ricicle]

A guy I know has just come back off the update and said he was there all day just to be basically told 'RCD everything'!!!

 

[Adam_151]

A guy I know has just come back off the update and said he was there all day just to be basically told 'RCD everything'!!!

Hang on... something rings a bell... to do with kitchen sinks, green/yellow cable, and still not having got people out the habbit a couple of decades on...

 

[securespark]

Rice

!!

There's a bit more to it than that.

What tickles me is all the descriptions that have changed.

A few are: Line (was Phase), Basic Protection (was Direct Contact), Fault Protection (was Indirect Contact), ADS (was EEBADS), etcetera..

I suppose you gotta keep someone in a job...

Hang on... something rings a bell... to do with kitchen sinks, green/yellow cable, and still not having got people out the habbit a couple of decades on...

Yeah! Remember my post a short while back?

A rewire done to the "17th", with supplementary to the kitchen sink...

 

[333rocky333]

Is that why new boards are L1, L2 L3 , standing for LINE,
so should we now say,
3 line motor connected to a 3 line board.

 

[securespark]

It has been altered in the spirit of harmonisation, but not with Europe. It is to bring the regs in line with BS 1363, which uses "L" to denote "Line", not "Live", as everyone (including several manufacturers) seem to think!

 

[Chri5]

I did mine at the NIC- 3 days !!

3 days due to not doing 16th and hence course was the full fat varient.

Line is a funny one, since there's still 100's of references to phase in the red book.

You must be far better than me, I got 91% which was 5 wrong from 60

 

[dingbat]

Well done, Simon & Chris.

The point is missed by many, many sparks that it is one thing to pass an exam, quite another to actually understand the regs.

I've taught (hang on, I'll count up...) nine 2382-10/20 courses now and overwhelmingly the delegates have been surprised at their own lack of understanding. Most have never been taught to use the book correctly and many have a poor grasp of even basic principles.

 

[securespark]

Thanks, dingbat.

Yes, I agree. There was invariably a stony silence round the table when our tutor asked questions.

"What's 'Ib'?" asked one....

The thing is, you never stop learning. As a colleague of mine said the other day, having phoned me aboput a fault he was looking into, "Every day's a school day."