Following up to last week's thread.


On Thu, 30 Dec 2004 09:31:40 -0000, "Dave Jones"
wrote:


"Lurch" wrote in message
.. .
On Wed, 29 Dec 2004 19:25:02 -0000, "John Borman"
strung together this:

It is recommended but not mandatory,

It's mandatory, if you're going to do it do it properly.

most rented accommodation I visit
don't have and they have passed an electrical inspection.

No they haven't, they've been tested by someone who doesn't know what
they're doing.

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110-04-01 The Regulations are non-statutory. .....

i.e. NOT mandatory

They have passed an electrical inspection, wether the person was competent
or not is another thing.

I did say if you have access, a loft with a loft ladder or other means,
would be more suitable than a switch located on a 9 ft ceiling, where by you
have to use a ladder/chair in order to use it.

"Every fixed electric motor shall be provided with an efficient means of
switching off, readily accessible, easily operated and so placed as to
prevent danger."


A "Bathroom Fan" is not a "Fixed Electric Motor".

It strikes me that I've never seen a bathroom fan with it's own isolator
in any of the (what seems like millions of) hotel/lodge bathrooms I've
used, which almost universally have a fan controlled via a run on timer
operating off the light switch. In fact I've never seen such a fan with
a dedicated isolator switch at all, an occasional fused spur, possibly.

Clearly this regulation was intended to apply to bigger, more powerful
electric motors which constitute a seperate installation in themselves,
with the intention of ensuring it is possible to reliably isolate it for
maintenance of the motor and the machinery it drives, or in an
emergency.

There is a difference between an 8 watt motor inside a "loovent" and a 5
horsepower "Fixed Electric Motor" driving a workshop full of machine
tools through shafting and belting.

Or am I wrong?

DG