Sunday, Jun 02, 2013 at 12:07
Thank you Peter
At risk of restarting that previous thread, 'protection' by enclosing an electric device in a plastic bag is not effective. Condensation builds up within that bag within a few minutes..
I have just checked again the communication from Energy Safe Victoria against the actual Standard and am, to put it mildly, surprised that whilst it quotes the main Clause 1.4.47 correctly (as follows): but it omits 1. and its clarification (2.)
'In Victoria, the Electricity Safety Act 1998 (the Act) defines an Electrical installation as - electrical installation means electrical equipment that is fixed or to be fixed in, on, under or over any land but does not include a supply network that is owned or operated by a major electricity company;' (i.e. it has been cut off at that ;).
1. 'An electrical installation usually commences at the point of supply, and finishes at a point (in wiring) but does not include portable or stationary electrical equipment connected by plug and socket-outlet (except where a socket- outlet is used to connect sections of the the fixed installation'.
2. Unless the context otherwise requires, the term 'installation' is used to mean electrical installation.
Despite this, Energy Safe Victoria's advise continues: 'The Act is law and overrides the definitions within AS/NZS3000, therefore a caravan or mobile
home (RV) is not considered an electrical installation.
ESV require manufacturers of any equipment to ensure compliance with standards at the time of manufacture and to have a process that ensures each manufactured product is compliant. In the case of RV most manufacturers use a Licensed Electrical Inspector to ensure initial production complies and develop a testing regime to ensure all units comply. ESV audits this process and inspects at random all manufacturers in Victoria about once every 2 years to ensure compliance.
Because the RV is not an installation a licence is not required to perform the electrical work and a Certificate of electrical safety is not required.'
Note that neither inspection nor a Certificate is required (that last one caught me out as, like PterQ, I had assumed that Cert was required. But seemingly not even that!
This saga reminds me of Humpty Dumpty's comment in Alice in Wonderland:
"When I use a word," Humpty Dumpty said, in rather a scornful tone, "it means just what I choose it to mean—neither more nor less."
"The question is," said Alice, "whether you can make words mean so many different things."
"The question is," said Humpty Dumpty, "which is to be master—that's all."
Collyn
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