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I sell them on ebay, they are exactally the same as the brown book except i mark them up £10 more.Amendment 3? It's not been published yet.
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I sell them on ebay, they are exactally the same as the brown book except i mark them up £10 more.Amendment 3? It's not been published yet.
There was a little adjustment in the corigendum that came out earlier this yearWe were all told that SPD's were mandatory under A3 from September last year and even sat through the webinar spelling it out. I work an area with lots of overhead lines, I ran out of the Type 1's I bulk buy online and could not find any local wholesalers who stocked them (type 2 yes but no type 1). It seemed strange that it is now mandatory to fit them but you can't buy them at the wholesalers.
Fast forward a few weeks and I am sitting in an Aico fire alarm training session and I raise this point afterwards with the trainer. His response was that no one stocks the expensive Type 1's because they aren't mandatory, they realised that making it mandatory was a stupid idea and they pulled that amendment.
So what is going on? Did they pull the amendment? Is the amendment still in force but being largely ignored? What's going on with this...
So we’re still on AMD2?
Lots of things are still marketed as amd3 compliant, referencing the 17th Ed…. So what came out in 17 amd 2 that wasn’t so important to warrant mass marketing?
I don't know why you think you can't fit smoke alarms without an SPD.
I don't want to cause you to faint but I have added smoke alarms to VIR lighting circuits and lighting circuits with no CPC. In the former case the house was a fire waiting to happen and I felt the family waking up was more important than anything else.
They're not infallible. If this was since the Corrigendum then I would suggest that whoever started it is simply incorrect, regardless of which body he represented. Also Type 1 SPDs are only really relevant where there is an LPS, and would still need to cascade down to Type 2 etc.That would be the new 443.4.1 See above either post for how Napit instructed us to interpret it.
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