Do I need to add a fuse to fix this cowboy job?

[morqthana]

Fan should be fused

Like it is when sold outside the UK you mean?

What does that mean

I really don't know what to say....

 

[morqthana]

Now, now Winston...

?

We're not abiding by Euro regs and standards here, we are abiding by BS7671.

Which says what about fusing fans?

 

[ericmark]

I looked at these and one of these and it seemed actually cheaper to get the second option, which in fact, failed to give a good loop impedance reading. The RCD test was A1 but not the loop impedance test.

So we are looking at around £100 to buy or hire equipment to test the installation, and it seems likely it would cost less to employ an electrician to do the testing.

I have not seen @winston for a long time, same as @ban-all-sheds not sure why any reference to either, except they both tended to read the regulations to say what they wanted it to say.

But with any conflict, what you want, is the person putting forward your point of view to be higher qualified to the one you think got it wrong, however it has been pointed out many times, my Fdeng in many ways behind my name does not show I know any more than someone who has passed their C&G 2391, I have also passed that, but that does not give me letters behind my name.

And this is the point, until we exceed level 3, qualifications are not shown by letters behind your name, so a first year apprentice seems the same as someone with 50 years experience.

But with this case, (not any similar cases) the adding of a fan is hardly going to overload a circuit, even if technically wrong, so how pedantic should we be?

It seems unlikely the fan will cause a problem, but technically it should not be fed from a spur. It would not worry me, but it does not comply.

 

[mikehammer69]

I really don't know what to say....

You're talking in riddles

Why should the fan be connected to the socket circuit without fusing?

 

[securespark]

?

You sound just like Winston.

Which says what about fusing fans?

You tell me. You're super confident the fan does not need one.

 

[pete01]

You're talking in riddles

He never really answers anything

 

[morqthana]

He never really answers anything

Untrue

But I do sometimes forget how hard some people find it to understand the bleedin obvious.

 

[morqthana]

You're talking in riddles

You said

Fan should be fused

So I asked about the way the fan would be fused when installed on a socket circuit outside the UK.

And you could not understand what I asked.

I really don't know what to say....

 

[pete01]

Untrue

But I do sometimes forget how hard some people find it to understand the bleedin obvious.

What do you mean?

 

[morqthana]

You sound just like Winston.

Not Himmy?

You tell me. You're super confident the fan does not need one.

If I knew, would I have asked?

 

[securespark]

If you didn't know, why would you have advised that the fan could be connected as you did?

I no longer wish to have ridiculous conversations with you like this.