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Default Thoughts on fitting RCBOs

On Thu, 24 Oct 2013 09:05:12 +0100, Mike Tomlinson wrote:

... they are taking my overall leakage too near the 30mA limit on

the
CU.


Aren't you allowed to replace the RCD with a 100mA one in these
circumstances?


The RCD is for shock protection. Pretty sure that has to be 30 mA.

100mA ones are for circuit protection and normally time delayed to
provide discrimination against downstream 30 mA shock protection
RCDs.

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Cheers
Dave.