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EV Installation Guide – ABB Terra DC Wallbox

|Date: 25 February, 2020

EV Installation Guide – ABB Terra DC Wallbox

The team at ABB talk us through how to install an ABB Terra DC Wallbox. Preparing the site The first job ...

The team at ABB talk us through how to install an ABB Terra DC Wallbox. Preparing the site The first job in any project is planning and preparation of the site. That starts with a site visit to confir ...

25 February, 2020
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Automatic disconnection of supply

|Date: 24 February, 2020

Automatic disconnection of supply

The team at the NICEIC offer their advice. This article discusses the protective measure Automatic discon ...

The team at the NICEIC offer their advice. This article discusses the protective measure Automatic disconnection of supply (ADS), typically used in most electrical installations as a means of providin ...

24 February, 2020
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Made 2 Measure: Industrial testing work and motors

|Date: 20 February, 2020

Made 2 Measure: Industrial testing work and motors

The Megger team answer your questions about motors. You ask: I’ve recently started doing some industrial ...

The Megger team answer your questions about motors. You ask: I’ve recently started doing some industrial testing work. I can manage pretty well with my existing test kit, but motors are a bit of a pro ...

20 February, 2020
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EV Charging: What does the amendment mean?

|Date: 17 February, 2020

EV Charging: What does the amendment mean?

ECA’s Energy and Emerging Technologies Solutions Advisor, Luke Osborne looks at what to expect in the upc ...

ECA’s Energy and Emerging Technologies Solutions Advisor, Luke Osborne looks at what to expect in the upcoming Amendment to BS 7671:2018. Amendment 1 is solely focused on section 722: electrical vehic ...

17 February, 2020
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Napit Codebreakers #14

|Date: 13 February, 2020

Napit Codebreakers #14

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 ...

13 February, 2020
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“Commitment-phobes beware in 2020!”

|Date: 10 February, 2020

“Commitment-phobes beware in 2020!”

John O’Neill, Director of Technical for NICEIC & ELECSA, gives us his take on the bigger picture for ...

John O’Neill, Director of Technical for NICEIC & ELECSA, gives us his take on the bigger picture for the years ahead and offers his predictions for training patterns in 2020. The last decade was n ...

10 February, 2020
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Determining Zs for a lighting circuit

|Date: 3 February, 2020

Determining Zs for a lighting circuit

The team at NICEIC offer their technical support. The aim of this article is to explain why it is necessa ...

The team at NICEIC offer their technical support. The aim of this article is to explain why it is necessary to determine the value of earth fault loop impedance, and considers the different options av ...

3 February, 2020
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Back to the future: what happens if an existing installation doesn’t comply with the latest regulations?

|Date: 31 January, 2020

Back to the future: what happens if an existing installation doesn’t comply with the latest regulations?

Bill Allan offers advice on dealing with scenarios where a previous installation may comply with an earli ...

Bill Allan offers advice on dealing with scenarios where a previous installation may comply with an earlier version of BS 7671, but not the current edition. When carrying out an Electrical Installati ...

31 January, 2020
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AFDD technology and the 18th Edition

|Date: 24 January, 2020

AFDD technology and the 18th Edition

Paul Fisher, Managing Director of Electrium offers a reminder as to why AFDDs have made it into the 18th ...

Paul Fisher, Managing Director of Electrium offers a reminder as to why AFDDs have made it into the 18th Edition. Government statistics show that over 13,000 electrical fires occur each year. More tha ...

24 January, 2020
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Made 2 Measure: Sizing cables and calculating voltage drops

|Date: 20 January, 2020

Made 2 Measure: Sizing cables and calculating voltage drops

The Megger team answer your questions about size cables and voltage drops. You ask: I often need to size ...

The Megger team answer your questions about size cables and voltage drops. You ask: I often need to size cables and calculate voltage drops when I’m working on-site, sometimes in places where I don’t ...

20 January, 2020
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