On Fri, 27 Feb 2004 23:33:16 -0000, "Kalico" wrote:

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I think I could find the whatever for the 'On site guide'? Is that the
sort of 'real world' translation of the full regs for everyday wiring
issues?

Is there more than one of these guides (different publishers etc) out
there and if so, what is 'the' one to have please?

T i m

Hi Tim

There are no alternative publishers for the actual regs etc and frankly I
fell they are a bit of a rip-off. If anything, they should be provided
free, but I don't wish to court controversy.

You're right of course, but standards are a real money spinner. Take
a look at the ISO web site sometime. However, the standards bodies
do need to fund their activities.

BS7671 is cheap on the scale of some of the stuff in there and of
course the IEE does have to pay for the opulent Faraday House on every
day of the week.

One of the tricks is to do loads of cross references to other
standards and to make them a bit obscure so that you can't tell
whether you need to refer to them or not to get the information
required. The EU Machinery Directive and the referenced standards
is a great example of that.


..andy

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