Electrical Installation Archives

Amendment 2: What are the new inspection and testing requirements? | NAPIT

|Date: 6 July, 2022

Amendment 2: What are the new inspection and testing requirements? | NAPIT

Frank Bertie, Chief Technical Officer at NAPIT, explains new inspection and testing requirements under Am ...

Frank Bertie, Chief Technical Officer at NAPIT, explains new inspection and testing requirements under Amendment 2. As part of any electrical installation, there is a requirement to undertake inspecti ...

6 July, 2022
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Codebreakers #42

|Date: 30 June, 2022

Codebreakers #42

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 ...

30 June, 2022
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Testing RCDs: how straightforward is it? | Megger

|Date: 22 June, 2022

Testing RCDs: how straightforward is it? | Megger

Provided you had a reliable test set, testing RCDs used to be pretty straightforward. Peter Wade of Megge ...

Provided you had a reliable test set, testing RCDs used to be pretty straightforward. Peter Wade of Megger looks at why life is now getting somewhat more complicated and discusses what you need to do ...

22 June, 2022
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Knightsbridge supports electrical installation students

|Date: 21 June, 2022

Knightsbridge supports electrical installation students

Students at Bedford College are getting to grips with their hands-on electrical installation work with re ...

Students at Bedford College are getting to grips with their hands-on electrical installation work with renewed enthusiasm thanks to Knightsbridge, one of the UK’s leading brands of wiring devices, acc ...

21 June, 2022
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Amendment 2: Arc Fault Detection Device (AFDD) requirements | NAPIT

|Date: 14 June, 2022

Amendment 2: Arc Fault Detection Device (AFDD) requirements | NAPIT

Paul Chaffers, Technical Events Manager at NAPIT, looks at arc fault detection device (AFDD) requirements ...

Paul Chaffers, Technical Events Manager at NAPIT, looks at arc fault detection device (AFDD) requirements following the publication of BS 7671:2018+A2:2022. The subject of AFDDs rapidly became a hot t ...

14 June, 2022
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TV car restorer kits out new studio with Scolmore Group products

|Date: 17 May, 2022

TV car restorer kits out new studio with Scolmore Group products

He recently acquired new studio premises for a new car restoration TV show and when it came to fitting it ...

He recently acquired new studio premises for a new car restoration TV show and when it came to fitting it out with electrical accessories, lighting and security products, Tim Shaw, a long-time fan of ...

17 May, 2022
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Temporary electrical installations on construction and demolition sites

|Date: 27 February, 2020

Temporary electrical installations on construction and demolition sites

NAPIT’s Don Holmes offers clarification and advice for contractors. Every year, the use of electricity on ...

NAPIT’s Don Holmes offers clarification and advice for contractors. Every year, the use of electricity on construction sites results in accidents from electric shock and burns which can be serious or ...

27 February, 2020
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Inventor’s Corner: Super Rod Pry

|Date: 5 June, 2019

Inventor’s Corner: Super Rod Pry

Super Rod has launched an innovative pry tool to ensure safer electrical isolation when working on applia ...

Super Rod has launched an innovative pry tool to ensure safer electrical isolation when working on appliances or installations, as PE reports. The Super Rod Pry is the invention of David Beech, a Gas ...

5 June, 2019
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Reporting on the condition of a domestic electrical installation

|Date: 6 May, 2019

Reporting on the condition of a domestic electrical installation

This article looks at some of the main aspects included in an NICEIC Domestic Electrical Installation Con ...

This article looks at some of the main aspects included in an NICEIC Domestic Electrical Installation Condition Report (DEICR). Periodic inspection of a domestic installation may be required for a ran ...

6 May, 2019
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Electrical Installation for Greenhouses

|Date: 19 December, 2018

Electrical Installation for Greenhouses

Except for those requirements applying only to locations where livestock is kept, the requirements relati ...

Except for those requirements applying only to locations where livestock is kept, the requirements relating to agricultural and horticultural premises given in Section 705 of BS 7671 apply to the elec ...

19 December, 2018
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