Originally posted by: Zoro
Phantom9, What should a piece of equipment that does not meet the CURRENT BS/EN 60947-1: 2007 + A1:2011 standard for that equipment be coded, when there is a risk of combustion? Forget the BS7671 propaganda.
Well, you are claiming something that I am not aware of. Are you saying that some fuse boards that should comply with that standard are failing to meet that standard? Because if you are then it is nothing to do with BS7671. Its a manufacturing breach not a reg breach. You cannot, as an electrician, be expected to know that an item you have purchased and installed that is branded as compliant with a MANUFACTURING standard, and purchased in good faith, does not meet the standard. What are going to do, take all your electrical accessories that you've purchased to a BS testing plant every time you buy them before you turn up to the job? You don't code it for goodness sake and you can't code it. Its not possible. How CAN you know beforehand. Wake up and smell the coffee, you are falling in to the "lets invent some imaginative electrical problems trap". If the manufacturer is guilty of wrong doing its out of our hands. Zoro,

your what-ifs, buts and maybes are unfounded. If you were to think it through, like I try to do, you would answer your own question half the time.
As an aside, I have never met such an imaginative bunch in my life as electricians. They dream up all sorts of bloody scenarios convinced that they are right and that they comply (or not as the case may be) with regs. Never experienced so much enthusiasm to prove oneself as being more correct or better than the other electrician. I am beginning (after ten years) to see why this industry is so messed up. Its not for lack of 'the Regs' it's because of all the fanciful, made up, misconstrued and misguided nonsense that abounds. We've got DaveZawadis C1s, your non-compliance with a BS manufacturing code, people trying to suggest that passing cables through a box might not comply with a Reg, people arguing about metal fuse boards when metal is not even in the reg, it goes on and on. Truly, I say,

truly unbelievable. I have decided that there are as many permutations and claims of what does or does not comply with a reg as there are electricians. Unbelievable!!!