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Why? I am an electrical engineer on paper, but still asked on here about type AC, and type A RCD's. Some times you simply want some one to bounce ideas with to help one understand what is really required, we are told you write out a method statement and from that you do a risk assessment, but with a house hold we can't really write out that method statement, so we have to try and consider the scenarios, and what would happen with each scenario and try and design the system to suit all you have thought about.It is worrying that people who are acting in the role of "tradesperson" are asking for advice on a DIY forum.
In University we were told you have a conveyor belt which can have a plastic lion, hippo or kangaroo, design a program that puts each in it's own cage, we thought about sidewards, backwards etc, and all seemed to work, then the school children arrived, we had never considered the lion would ride on the hippo.
And this is the problem, we can miss a scenario, so bouncing ideas can help ensure you have not missed one. Like for example pulling the DNO fuse with a smart meter the suppliers knows some thing is wrong.