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What is a Cable Safe Zone?

|Date: 23 October, 2018

What is a Cable Safe Zone?

Mark Longley MIET, a tutor at Trade Skills 4U, offers essential guidance to help keep cable installations ...

Mark Longley MIET, a tutor at Trade Skills 4U, offers essential guidance to help keep cable installations safe. Put simply, a cable safe zone is a space in which a cable can be installed in such a pos ...

23 October, 2018
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Residual Current Devices – Where Should They Be Used?

|Date: 19 October, 2018

Residual Current Devices – Where Should They Be Used?

Best practice guidance and advice from the experts at NICEIC. RCD is a generic term that covers a range o ...

Best practice guidance and advice from the experts at NICEIC. RCD is a generic term that covers a range of residual current devices including RCBOs and RCCBs. Primarily an RCD is selected so that its ...

19 October, 2018
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Paperwork: What You Should Be Aware Of

|Date: 15 October, 2018

Paperwork: What You Should Be Aware Of

NAPIT’s Don Holmes identifies some essential items of paperwork that contractors should be aware of, as r ...

NAPIT’s Don Holmes identifies some essential items of paperwork that contractors should be aware of, as required by industry regulations. ...

15 October, 2018
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Made 2 Measure: Loop Testing of RCBO/RCD Circuits

|Date: 10 October, 2018

Made 2 Measure: Loop Testing of RCBO/RCD Circuits

The technical team at Megger answer this month’s reader query. YOU ASKED: I’ve been working in a college ...

The technical team at Megger answer this month’s reader query. YOU ASKED: I’ve been working in a college recently where supplies to the lab benches are protected by RCBOs with a 10ma earth leakage tri ...

10 October, 2018
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RCDs: Operation and Application Explained

|Date: 8 October, 2018

RCDs: Operation and Application Explained

Essential technical advice from the team at ELECSA. The RCD has become an indispensable protective device ...

Essential technical advice from the team at ELECSA. The RCD has become an indispensable protective device, selected to provide fault protection, additional protection and, in certain circumstances, pr ...

8 October, 2018
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18th Edition: Changes to Inspection & Testing

|Date: 3 October, 2018

18th Edition: Changes to Inspection & Testing

Stroma Certification provides 18th Edition guidance for inspectors working in the inspection and testing ...

Stroma Certification provides 18th Edition guidance for inspectors working in the inspection and testing fields. The publication of the 18th Edition has seen significant changes to Part 6 Inspection a ...

3 October, 2018
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What Are The Common LED Disruptors?

|Date: 29 September, 2018

What Are The Common LED Disruptors?

In this article the team at Zano Controls look at why inrush current and power factor can cause disruptio ...

In this article the team at Zano Controls look at why inrush current and power factor can cause disruption to your LED installation. It’s a contentious subject, but independent testing has found a hug ...

29 September, 2018
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Fire-Rated Downlights: Times Are A Changing

|Date: 21 September, 2018

Fire-Rated Downlights: Times Are A Changing

John Bullivant, Technical Manager at Eterna Lighting, provides us with a guide to 30, 60 and 90 minute fi ...

John Bullivant, Technical Manager at Eterna Lighting, provides us with a guide to 30, 60 and 90 minute fire rated downlights. Building regulation Part B speciﬁes the level of ﬁre protection required w ...

21 September, 2018
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Residential Buildings: How To Choose The Correct Smoke Ventilation Systems

|Date: 21 August, 2018

Residential Buildings: How To Choose The Correct Smoke Ventilation Systems

In this simple step-by-step guide, Dan Foster from Be Safe Direct explains the key factors for choosing t ...

In this simple step-by-step guide, Dan Foster from Be Safe Direct explains the key factors for choosing the correct smoke ventilation system for a residential building. When specifying and installing ...

21 August, 2018
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Periodic Inspection and Testing: Part 2

|Date: 10 August, 2018

Periodic Inspection and Testing: Part 2

The experts at Stroma Certification are back with the second part of this best practice advice col ...

The experts at Stroma Certification are back with the second part of this best practice advice column. In the previous article of this technical guidance series we looked at the objective of pe ...

10 August, 2018
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