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Installing electrical equipment in medical locations

|Date: 22 November, 2023

Installing electrical equipment in medical locations

In medical locations, it is necessary to ensure the safety of patients likely to be subjected to the appl ...

In medical locations, it is necessary to ensure the safety of patients likely to be subjected to the application of medical electrical equipment. Here, Dale Fisher MIET MIHEEM MSOE, looks at the consi ...

22 November, 2023
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Made 2 Measure: What is the best way to locate and trace buried cables?

|Date: 21 November, 2023

Made 2 Measure: What is the best way to locate and trace buried cables?

Working on your own? Need some technical advice? Don’t know where to turn? The technical team at Megger a ...

Working on your own? Need some technical advice? Don’t know where to turn? The technical team at Megger answers the latest technical query from end users. YOU ASK: I’M WORKING ON AN ELECTRICAL INSTALL ...

21 November, 2023
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Providing additional fire protection – what are the requirements for using AFDDs | Hager

|Date: 17 November, 2023

Providing additional fire protection – what are the requirements for using AFDDs | Hager

Hager’s Technical Training Manager, Paul Chaffers, discusses the importance of providing additional fire ...

Hager’s Technical Training Manager, Paul Chaffers, discusses the importance of providing additional fire protection, following the mandated use of Arc Fault Detection Devices (AFDD) in the latest Edit ...

17 November, 2023
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What are the purposes of, and difference between earthing and bonding within an electrical installation? NICEIC

|Date: 15 November, 2023

What are the purposes of, and difference between earthing and bonding within an electrical installation? NICEIC

It would appear that many people, including some whose work requires involvement with electrical installa ...

It would appear that many people, including some whose work requires involvement with electrical installations, are not aware of the differences between earthing and bonding. This article outlines the ...

15 November, 2023
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Electrical earthing: do you know the requirements? | Scolmore Group

|Date: 13 November, 2023

Electrical earthing: do you know the requirements? | Scolmore Group

Jake Green, Head of Technical Engagement at Scolmore Group, takes a look at earth electrodes and the rele ...

Jake Green, Head of Technical Engagement at Scolmore Group, takes a look at earth electrodes and the relevant code of practice associated with their application. BS 7430: 2011+A1:2015 is a code of pra ...

13 November, 2023
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Codebreakers #69

|Date: 8 November, 2023

Codebreakers #69

Need help with cracking those EICR codes? The technical team at NAPIT, with the help of the 18th Edition ...

Need help with cracking those EICR codes? The technical team at NAPIT, with the help of the 18th Edition Codebreakers publication, answer your latest coding queries. Click on the photos for a closer l ...

8 November, 2023
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Demand or diversity? – Calculating the maximum demand of an installations capacity | NAPIT

|Date: 8 November, 2023

Demand or diversity? – Calculating the maximum demand of an installations capacity | NAPIT

Richard Townsend, Principal Technical Author at NAPIT, looks at the problems facing designers who may be ...

Richard Townsend, Principal Technical Author at NAPIT, looks at the problems facing designers who may be specifying heavy current using equipment connected to consumer units. Calculate or determine? T ...

8 November, 2023
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Voltage imbalance on 3-phase supplies – why it is important and how to avoid it | Chauvin Arnoux

|Date: 31 October, 2023

Voltage imbalance on 3-phase supplies – why it is important and how to avoid it | Chauvin Arnoux

Chauvin-Arnoux UK’s Julian Grant discusses the implications of voltage imbalance on the electrical supply ...

Chauvin-Arnoux UK’s Julian Grant discusses the implications of voltage imbalance on the electrical supply of an installation, why it could be of critical importance, and how to avoid it. A three-phase ...

31 October, 2023
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Standardisation of the Open Charge Point Protocol – what does this mean for EV charge point installations? | Sevadis

|Date: 25 October, 2023

Standardisation of the Open Charge Point Protocol – what does this mean for EV charge point installations? | Sevadis

The team at Sevadis provide more detail on the Open Charge Point Protocol (OCPP), its standardisation and ...

The team at Sevadis provide more detail on the Open Charge Point Protocol (OCPP), its standardisation and what this means for EV charge point installations. The Open Charge Point Protocol (OCPP) is an ...

25 October, 2023
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The use of insulation piercing connectors (IPC) on meter tails | NICEIC

|Date: 20 October, 2023

The use of insulation piercing connectors (IPC) on meter tails | NICEIC

It has come to the attention of the NICEIC that some contractors installing EVCPs are using insulation pi ...

It has come to the attention of the NICEIC that some contractors installing EVCPs are using insulation piercing connectors (IPC) in order to provide a branch from the meter tails to supply an EVCP. Th ...

20 October, 2023
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