Lobster wrote:

Keep meaning to get myself a copy of the OSG, and someone's just offered
me the 7th ed - that's the 7th edition of the guide to the 16th edition
regs - all very confusing!

The OSG doesn't have an edition no. as such, so be careful. The current
edition has a brown cover and was last revised in 2004 to incorporate
the change in wiring colours. The one before that was blue. What
colour is the one you've being offered?

I gather the 17th edition of the regs is imminent so the current OSG
won't be current long anyway I suppose?

FSVO "imminent" - i.e. still over a year away. The 17th ed. will be out
in Jan '08 (see recent thread), and comes fully into force in June. So
it may well be a good few months into 2008 before a new OSG appears.

--
Andy