Thank you for taking the time to answer all of those questions! You went a little ElectroBOOM in your irritation of the switched earth complexification - which is hilarious. Never fail to learn something watching your videos. I am literally planning to install an outdoor outlet on the back of my house this weekend and will have to drill through the brick to do it. You may have saved me an hour or two in the fetal position crying about the brick i just destroyed which has been discontinued for 10 years and is now impossible to buy (ask me how I know).
I’m an AU Sparky. Thanks for explaining the uk system, even though I knew they had a similar system to ours, I never knew the exact difference. Scenario: High resistance fault on the Point of attachment, Hot dry day and the earth electrode soil is dry, AC in the house is running full tit, charger is running full tit, load causes high resistance fault to heat up and get worse, EV owner goes out to wash the car while it’s charging. AU = RIP Poms = PEN monitor trips. I think the extra precaution the poms are taking is due to the car being an earthed electrical device which is commonly used around water and on outside ground.
That scenario is far more likely in Australia than it is in the UK. The UK gets few hot days, and therefore most people don't have air conditioning. From a cost/benefit point of view, it might make more sense for each country to adopt the other country's system.
I was visiting my friends flat in Corfu when I discovered they have three-phase in every home. Really handy if you want a Bridgeport milling machine & lathe in your bedroom. I agree on using a manual screwdriver.
An earth rod is also an option in the UK instead of using a PEN fault detection device. Many of the top charge points have this PEN fault detection built in though. These include the Myenergi Zappi as you see in the eFIXX video here. We have one of these (on a TNCS system) and we have neither an earth rod nor the separate PEN fault detection device.
Dunno how old my home is but it was probably wired an unsafe amount of time ago( as in over 30years), and right outside, pocking through the drive is an earth rod. I have also seen them, in multiple, around supermarkets that are a lot newer.
'Roof cavity' is the weirdest name for an attic i have heard so far. Clearly it must be hard to name things with all the blood rushing to your heads with the world being upside down over there lol.
I started working as manual labour shitkicker for a landscaper and then picked up a mechanics apprenticeship. Boss made me work on some old datto in full sun on black Saturday, 46 degrees, every piece of metal on that car would burn your skin when you touched it. That was the day I decided I was going to spend my life working white collar. 13 years later I get to work from home in airconditioned paradise and comment on youtube videos during work hours.
In the US, the consumer unit is called the [circuit] breaker panel, and the attic is the unfinished upper portion of the house, while a loft is usually partitioned into a usable room or rooms, and sometimes open to the lower floors.
It's the same here in Canada. Always interesting to see where Canada followed the US or kept to British conventions. New technology post 1867 tends to follow the US, which makes a lot of sense.
That is a term one understands even if one has never heard it before. "Consumer unit" is completely meaningless in itself. You have to know what it means to understand it. Now we are no better in Finland here it is called ryhmäkeskus (group center)
@@okaro6595 Ground Fault Circuit Interrupter GFCI is self explanatory, but the UK we call them RCD Residual Current Device, which is not so helpful. Here a "Wiring Centre" is just a glorified junction box, typically for a central heating system.
@@ronblack7870 We used to call them "Fuse boxes" but that got a bit dated when rewireable fuses started to be replaced with Miniature Circuit Breakers (I've never understood what's "miniature" about them). So I suppose a new word was required that was neither "Fuse" nor "Breaker", as at that time either were commonly used, sometimes both in the same enclosure. Consumer unit probebly does sound strange, but we are used to the term now, and as you say, anyone messing with one should be familiar with UK regulations, and terminology.
I once dressed in a sealed rubber suit for a chemical decontamination job, with the self contained breathing apparatus, with a tank of air, same as for fire fighters. It was somewhere tropical. That was a hot day of work. Literally not possible to do more than 45 minutes - for lack of air and no ability to let heat out of the suit. Literally could pour the sweat out of my boots. But still, I hate fiberglass insulation more.
fibreglass insulation was banned in california about 25 years ago then unbanned. about 10 years ago, i saw a show about scientists checking the pollution in the air 160kms inland from the california coast. they were stunned to find their samples were full of rockwool and fibreglass fibres. ban the stuff again. all of it.
In New Zealand, you can buy a used eclectic car for $5,000, and these UK guys will have you install a $3,500 charger and derate it to 10amps using a DIP switch, and you could just plug it into one of those regular 10A wall outlets with an 8Amp EVSE. You will get about 100-150km of drivable range in 12 hours overnight from an 8Amp. 32A will give you ~400km overnight, that's a lengthy daily commute in the UK or a drive down to the shops in Western Australia.
I'm a sparky in Darwin, and I just found your channel mate.I reckon you got a new subscriber (or is that maybe the beer talking?). Every time they spoke of switching the earth, I think my brain exploded, and 42 degrees is actually bloody hot! I'm surprised the folks in OH&S didn't have a little something to say to them about waiting a few days.
TN system is only allowed in Denmark if you apply to the power provider. TN is mustly used for large business. For all others TT is used, where you have a gruonding rod at your house and one at the 15KV transformer.
Actually, the Earthing and neutral talk is very interesting, please do a video about it. ESPECIALLY about countries which don't have earth at all, like mine. not in switches, not in panels, not in appliances. We just have 2 wires not 3
this summer in Italy i've experienced 52C°.... yeah... also here we primarily use TT (usually for home or low power use) or TNS (mainly for industrial use, with the earth-neutral connection near the transformer) systems, you can use IT, TNC or TNCS systems but they are reeeeealy uncommon and strictly regulated.
7:57 - that's how my wiring is done - I thought it was universal, however I have discovered a lot of new builds use different "earth bonding" techniques and this is why you need that "smart box" as it ensures safety in the even that you don't have a dedicated earth. I think it's a bad design choice as it's another point of failure...
In UK and used to have a IT colleague from Australia. Our reaction to him to saying router was much the same as yours to the UK sparky. We're correct though. 🙂 Pretty sure Australians pronounce 'route' the same as we do in the context of directions from one place to another, and that's where the term router comes from in computer networking.
6:19 never ever disconnect the earth/ PE conductor!! Even if it is a TNC-(S) or TT mains.It seems those lads have absolutely no idea about for what they doing. The german system is more like the australian system. The different is the earth neutral wires to earth bounding. Thes connection point is a potential bonding bar ist inside the building direkt near meter box and the incomer, so the N and PE (earth) goes separatly to the switch box. An earth rod or foundation ground is mandatory for each single building. The earth resistance must be lower than 2 Ohms which is difficult to obtain in some areas. For critical installation a voltage monitor relay can be installed to check for no voltage between N against earth with a seperate earth rod installed at least 20m distance from the main earth rod. These relays are sometimes combined with phase faliure, wrong phase rotation and mains voltage surveilance facilities. In early installation you will find also the link between the N and earth bar , but it is now forbidden in new installations. If a customer got an own substation there are different types of earth bounding possible, depends on area and local conditions. The power company decide what to do.
7:55 We know that earthing system too as the TT-system. It's the preferred system nowadays, but it wasn't always so. I live in an apartment building in which the earth enters the building as a TN-S, so N and PE are separate, only to be combined in a single conductor, so TN-C, going to the consumer units in which they are split again to become a TN-C-S system. 11:00 I'm wondering how this is different from asbestos fibres when inhaled...
7:30 the cable Y cable comming in and out of the supply head is not the point of the neutral-earth link the reason for the 2 cables there is that is a looped supply so one supply from the street is feeding 2 properties. the point the neutral and earth are sepperated is just above on the supply head
The reason they switch off the grounding connection is that the cables underground between houses are sometimes very old, and they can be very different. basically they have to work around the mistakes of the past.
The PEN fault contactor is designed to _completey_ disconnect the car from the mains supply because a PEN fault could present a situation where the earthed metal body of the car is live at 230V which is why they break the Earth. It's switched to emulate as if you were literally unplugging the car.
Yeah, that complicated device for detecting a PEN fault doesn't really make any sense to me either. If I understand correctly, the US does things the same way as Australia does, and actually mandates that the ground line must be connected to an actual grounding rod at the same point that the ground and neutral are connected together (in the main customer panel), which would actually physically prevent that condition from occurring in the first place. I don't understand why the British regs don't just mandate a grounding rod like everyone else instead of this whole "switched ground" thing.
We do actually have a grounding rod in curtain places. We have three different systems with (tn-c-s) is most popular but we have a TT which is where you have a grounding rod. And it is mandated in some circumstances that you change to a TT system.
US has the split phase. If you charge an EV at 240 V the neutral is basically at 0 V even if it breaks. In the UK it is at 240 V. It then goes to the entire car. Ground rods do not save you. They are like aspirin to cancer pains. They may make you feel safe.
The orientation: UK standard discourage you from yanking cord to pull out a plug, because the cord comes out from the bottom and you just can't yank it out that way. AU one doesn't, and potentially inviting damage.
Arizona here, regularly gets up to about 48c (~120f) every summer. I guess since it's very regular here we've figured out some of the tricks to not literally dying after 2 hours
I did a show in Phoenix it was 102 in the day......105 at 3am!!! IT GOT THREE DEGREES HOTTER AT NIGHT!!! Phoenix should not exist. Stop living there people! Just move! God is punishing you for your hubris!
Damn, that is rough, especially for people who live in a normally cold climate. The same thing happened to me in the summer of 2021. At the time, The region of America in which I live in was a skin-melting 115°F (46.1°C) and because of wildfires, my AC’s air filter was getting clogged with ash, and smoke, and shit. Barely made it out of that one. 😅
Yes. And you must maintain the separation on any subpanels. Also, pretty sure most jurisdictions would scream if you had some sort of device that could disconnect ground. Sounds like the US is actually pretty similar to what Australia does. One interesting thing is that alot of places in the US are starting to move away from ground rods. Instead alot of new builds will leave a piece of the rebar from the foundation exposed and use that as the ground rod instead. Turns out it actually makes a pretty good ground, often better than a simple ground rod.
I'm in Canada and interrupting the protective earth makes absolutely no sense to me! We also have grounding rods and code requires neutral and earth to be bounded in a single place (usually the main distribution panel or main disconnect).
Same in the US, Ground, and Neutral are bonded in the main panel only. Everywhere else they are separate including in subpanels. Subpanel in a outbuilding the US would have its own ground rod since it is a separate structure.
It’s a real simple one . If the neutral is high resistance or disconnected at the transformer all grounded metal floats at mains potential. Your ground rod will help this but won’t stop shocks outdoors or against lower impedance paths . That is why the grounding conductor automatically disconnects.
Yes but what you might not have noticed is that we have the ground connected to the gas bond and the water bond and when high voltage and amperage and anything else as well as in electrical EV charger we do put in a copper or metal rod for grounding
TT isn't used regularly in the UK outside of rural areas. Urban areas are often terraced housing and if you tried to put a TT stake in you'd have a good change of hitting gas/water/telecom or sewer services. For the 18th Edition they did want a TT to be put in on every consumer unit/breaker panel upgrade but realised it was unachievable. Hence PEN fault devices.
Lol I see you've never worked in Darwin and similarly northern parts of Aus. The mechanic workshop I worked in was regularly well above 45 or higher. Gotta love tin walls and roofs. But I have always found it funny when some countries complain it is hot even mid to high 20s
It's an iec EV standard worldwide to do a continuous PEN testing at the EVSE the PE is disconnected with a contacter because the 400VDC vehicle battery is a massive source of danger , this you are totally forgetting
The code in my country, EVSE Circuit need to only run outside or in metallic conduit or underground, can go inside only if need to access to for consumer unit. Also the one responsible to cut all wires to charger port is EVSE itself, why you need to install in consumer unit LOL. EVSE circuit are preferred to use TT earthing which different from house which use TNC-S because G/PE wire to house may becoming fire hazard with huge amount of current when EVSE circuit at fault, which is usually 7.2KW or 32A at 230V, 1/3 to 2/3 of most household utility circuit rating. To use TNC-S earthing resistance need to be under limit from the EVSE installation point. Or use separate utility / consumer unit. But they run through the "LOFT" .. just another FIRE HAZARD.
I am IEEE Certified for Commercial/Industrial Electrical Installation, up to 5000V live work certified. In a Shop or Factory I can install Sockets, Lights, Appliances [Cooker, Fryer, Heaters, Solar, etc.] and Certify it SAFE for the public to use. If I do the same in a Residential home I am NOT qualified??? Part of the IEEE regulations is ALL of the residential codes, the other 3/4 is Commercial and Industrial e.g. 3 phase 415V at 500A+ circuits, etc. British Codes & Regs are absurd.
An earth rod does not protect efficiently in TN-C-S. If the rod has impedance of 19 ohm and the incoming wire 1 ohm the rod has still 95% of the mains voltage. Of course in a PEN fault the current does not go directly to the rod but through the house electric system. So if the house system has impedance of 18 ohm which is achieved at 3200 watts the rod still has 120 V. There is an alternative to make the charging point TT. But that requires a separate earth rod. UK uses single phase which increases the voltage in case the PEN-fault. This is a special rule for EV chargers. Inside the house bonding provides enough protection.
He is saying the cable run not the CU - The reson we remove the CPC as well as P / N so if there is a fault on the lime all are disconnected full safety. We have more then you say about earthing. Your separate earth is like are TT get a UK book and read it. The disconnection is also for a fault from the car back in to the property. TNC TNCS TT IT look at are earth system.
What do you mean by "large separate circuit" at 13:52? In the US the normal connection for an electric range and oven is 50A 240V. How much current do your non-induction cooktops use down there?
@@thinklist The oven and range are combined in one appliance with one plug, so it's potentially four burners and also the oven elements on at the same time.
This is just a spoof with zero research. The Mains consumer unit is downstairs to the grid. It's usually placed as close to the point of exit as possible since it connects to the National grid meter via SEG. They have referred to the wrong equipment as a consumer unit. What they are referring to is the inverter which connects to the solar installation and is usually in the loft as close to the panels entry point the cable from the inverter is then dropped down to the mains at ground floor level. Our earth is usually done the same way as you show Australia. Fibreglass is unlawful in the UK and has been for decades due to cancer risk. If it was found work would have to stop there and then while specialists are brought it to remove it. We tend to use Rockwool or similar for insulation. I'd be looking for a better installer. It's very rare to have a garage so far away from the house, our property size is just not large enough. It is much more usual to have a powerwall, like the Tesla's attached to the side of the property. You can't just stick a label on somewhere that should be earthed it's against regulations. This is more usual: th-cam.com/video/vKWykHLzL7A/w-d-xo.htmlsi=HFZnm9FaC8amcj3Z
i like how you make fun of the poms. at 8:49 you point out the good sense of earth stakes. the problem with earth rods is they dont go deep enough (1200mm)here in perth. the ground can be dry that deep underground at the start of autumn. 1800mm should be safe. the law requires the switchboard earth to be connected to the plumbing unless there is a plastic pipe connecting the house to the ground. i made sure my plumbing has such a plastic pipe for safety reasons. there are still deaths every year because of this requirement to join the earth to the house plumbing.
Personally for me the heat isn't much of a issue its only when its like 87F out with like 85% humidity that it makes me feel like I'm dying. I'd take 97F dry heat any day though.
Humidity is always high in the UK side effect of being an island and a relatively long and skinny one at that. Means you are always close to a large body of water thus the average outdoor humidity ranges between 70-90% about as far inland as you can get and even higher near the coasts.
White collar worker here - love your show, but just had to speak up. This may come as a shock to you, but white collar workers also do not like heat. Can't argue that it's worse for blue collar tho - typing at a keyboard might suck at 40C, but at least I'm not creating EXTRA heat with physical labor 😢
I’d love to see you react to more Photonicinduction videos, he’s a very interesting bloke cause he seems to know a hell of a lot about the details but is doing all the work in a little house with burnt carpets and a can of Carling! I think he made a video of cutting off his streets electric if I remember?!
I'm in Canada (Toronto) at the beginning of July, we haven't hit 40°C this year yet (rarely do) but we had a week of nearly 35°C in May or June (thankfully minimal humidity) and I'm ready for -20°C already. 🤣🤣 But I am the exception, not the rule, most people here love 30°C+ temps. My body does not do well in the heat, 5mins just standing in the sun at 23°C and I'm sweating profusely. Thankfully, I do IT, so I get to work inside, usually with AC, 95% of the time.
We have coming in Phase and sheath looks like single core SWA we're neutral and the earth are combined PME multiple earthing on the incoming at junctions from house to house also back at sub station.
I laugh every time I hear a brit say rooter. Funny thing is in US English route is pronounced sometimes like the way normal people say router, but also the british root as in root 130, sometimes both ways in the same breath,. So have no business laughing but I can't help myself. I have to ask though, if the police come to your house hunting for a pervy router, do they do a cavity search?
so what if the car/charger has a fault and back-feeds it's 300+ VDC into the charger and down the line and the earth is broken? Nice, now everything is live at 300+VDC, yup, that's not dangerous at all! 😆
Oh, but of course we have to go into the attic crawl in 40+ degree with a blazing sun weather! it's the only time we go there! quick quiz! was that in F? or C? I know which I would prefer to go into attics :)
@@thinklist That of course was the ambient temp. Being an Alarm tech by trade. the roof had just been replaced, they closed the ventilation off along the hips, and it blew all of the 185F/85C heat detectors,(5 of them) I disconnected the circuit and told them I would be back at 6am to replace them. it was still over 40c in that attic the next morning
Hi, I have to admit some of our electrical rules and regulations are a bit screwy, but the thing is your walls and regulations are just as scary as ours. Even more. You might not think that always makes any sense, but it is the exact same for us with yours, not to be mean or anything
All the sarcastic laughter makes your videos much less enjoyable to watch, sorry... When you explain in a natural way I really listen. Hope you can improve...
As a Californian..... 'awe poor, pasty white babies....' Do pest control iin August in the desert, then you can complain about the heat..... 2 gallons of Gatorade every day. I physically cannot drink Gatorade anymore, gives me the runs.....
You are bitter because you haven't got a proving unit. Admit it. Wait... Are there Proving-Unit Proving-Units? And what if that breaks? Damn... I need to get a Proving-Unit Proving-Unit Proving-Unit. God shave the King!
I'm not too sure why they are calling it a consumer unit, I'm from the UK and we all just call it a fuse box or breaker box "over engineered British bullshit!" Never do we overcomplicating things, we just do it the long way round lol My house had fiberglass insulation and I had to climb down the inside of the roof (I have a strange roof layout), when I got out I had microcuts all over myself My question is why is there such a large voltage drop over a cable such as the one in the video? Is the voltage drop fixable without making the cable super thick? Thanks for any reply!
Now a breaker box I can get 👍 😆 I mean the Brit’s can do it well sometimes too well. Great question: because the voltage is low (relatively) it doesn’t take much to fall outside the threshold. There are other things you can do but they’re not very practical. 1. You could boast the supply voltage but that needs to be within its own tolerance. 2. You could place auto transformers to boost the voltage. There are several other factors but nothing really beats just installing a larger cable.
The consumer unit is stupid term as if you hear it without knowing what it is you cannot in anyway know what it is. Electric panel, breaker box, fuse box, all tell you immediately what it is if you know basics of electricity.
@@thinklist In the US the specified wire for a 15 amp circuit is 14 gauge. I never use that, except when adding onto an existing 14 gauge run because mixing gauges is no bueno. I run 12 gauge so it's equally good for a 15 or 20 amp circuit. Most inspectors love seeing 12 gauge on 15 amp circuits because they know *that* won't ever be the cause of an electrical fire. When I had to do a 40 foot dedicated run for a 230V 20 amp heat pump I used 10 gauge, just to be sure. For the new wire to the oven/range I ran 6 gauge. Inside the conduit I found 8 gauge that was quite crusty with cracked insulation. That had been an upgrade from the 10 gauge original wire which had been cut off at both ends and left in the conduit. All those got pulled out so the new and plenty big wires could go in easily. There's still more corrections and upgrades to do, including a dedicated 20 amp circuit to the utility room and backyard outside outlet with those weird 20 amp US outlets that have one sideways T shaped slot. Fortunately the NEC allows a 110~115V and a 220~240V circuit to be run in the same conduit so I can use the new conduit I put in for the heat pump.
@@bobdole57 it was great for him he made a fortune out of the patent which left Americans with only 110v in homes . Too much cost to change the distribution system saw another 110v line brought into houses to compensate for a lack of power which led to double pole breakers and ridiculously large panels and a over complicated distribution system. All this could have been avoided with teslas simple 3 phase system powering homes . And coincidentally teslas life was ruined when he moved to the US .
@@persona250 do realize i'm an electrician.. and it just looks like the UK way of doing things is a bit broken.. because if you swich the ground, and the swich gets old, at some point it may no longer connect the ground, ground should be a fixt connection so no matter what puts a voltage on the system, it will be grounded..
@@TheBrainlessSteel are you from America? Neutral and earth bonded together, lost neutral at transformer = voltage potential on all grounded metalwork that includes the car body . It’s not a switch it’s a fault protection relay .
This is the UK, the weirdos that have switches on every fucken plug lol. I think the French do earth the same way Aussies do. We just redid ours in my appt since it was extremely old. Artisan visited France and did a video on our electrical system and he prefers it to the UK one.
I mean it comes in handy. Sometimes you dont want something on but you dont want to pull the plug out and in all the time, just wack the switch on and off.
You have not seen the Finnish ones. My apartment gets separate earth and neutral. On the consumer unit they are joined and a common wire goes to the sockets where they are separated. The consumer unit has RCDs but they are not connected as they cannot be used on a PEN-wire.
@@okaro6595 ouh wow! Running PEN to outlets is illegal in GER since the 70s :O I mean that in itself isn't the weird thing. But having RCDs then... Nice to learn about other places :)
@@okaro6595 No separate ground to the socket? Totally different to what I'm used to. I live in Cook county near Chicago. All residential wiring is metal boxes and metal conduit which doubles as a ground. You can at least use up to a 6 foot (2M) flexible conduit "whip" but otherwise get ready to bend pipe.
4:44 lmao I wasn't the only one
Y’all gotta come to the south. It’s hell 😂 hot temperatures, 90% humidity, mosquitoes, and poison ivy. Still love it though 😅
Thank you for taking the time to answer all of those questions! You went a little ElectroBOOM in your irritation of the switched earth complexification - which is hilarious. Never fail to learn something watching your videos. I am literally planning to install an outdoor outlet on the back of my house this weekend and will have to drill through the brick to do it. You may have saved me an hour or two in the fetal position crying about the brick i just destroyed which has been discontinued for 10 years and is now impossible to buy (ask me how I know).
😆 happy to be compared to ElectroBOOM. Those damn bricks popping is legit, glad to be of service 💪
I’m an AU Sparky.
Thanks for explaining the uk system, even though I knew they had a similar system to ours, I never knew the exact difference.
Scenario: High resistance fault on the Point of attachment, Hot dry day and the earth electrode soil is dry, AC in the house is running full tit, charger is running full tit, load causes high resistance fault to heat up and get worse,
EV owner goes out to wash the car while it’s charging.
AU = RIP
Poms = PEN monitor trips.
I think the extra precaution the poms are taking is due to the car being an earthed electrical device which is commonly used around water and on outside ground.
That scenario is far more likely in Australia than it is in the UK. The UK gets few hot days, and therefore most people don't have air conditioning. From a cost/benefit point of view, it might make more sense for each country to adopt the other country's system.
I don't think dry soil is possible in the UK.
Surely switching the earth wouldn't do much anyway??
I was visiting my friends flat in Corfu when I discovered they have three-phase in every home. Really handy if you want a Bridgeport milling machine & lathe in your bedroom.
I agree on using a manual screwdriver.
An earth rod is also an option in the UK instead of using a PEN fault detection device. Many of the top charge points have this PEN fault detection built in though. These include the Myenergi Zappi as you see in the eFIXX video here. We have one of these (on a TNCS system) and we have neither an earth rod nor the separate PEN fault detection device.
Dunno how old my home is but it was probably wired an unsafe amount of time ago( as in over 30years), and right outside, pocking through the drive is an earth rod. I have also seen them, in multiple, around supermarkets that are a lot newer.
12:30 unit is earthed via the cable - it's a 3-core cable
'Roof cavity' is the weirdest name for an attic i have heard so far. Clearly it must be hard to name things with all the blood rushing to your heads with the world being upside down over there lol.
also hard to think when you are constantly attacked by tank sized spiders and the likes
I started working as manual labour shitkicker for a landscaper and then picked up a mechanics apprenticeship. Boss made me work on some old datto in full sun on black Saturday, 46 degrees, every piece of metal on that car would burn your skin when you touched it. That was the day I decided I was going to spend my life working white collar.
13 years later I get to work from home in airconditioned paradise and comment on youtube videos during work hours.
😆😂 I love it
In the US, the consumer unit is called the [circuit] breaker panel, and the attic is the unfinished upper portion of the house, while a loft is usually partitioned into a usable room or rooms, and sometimes open to the lower floors.
It's the same here in Canada. Always interesting to see where Canada followed the US or kept to British conventions. New technology post 1867 tends to follow the US, which makes a lot of sense.
That is a term one understands even if one has never heard it before. "Consumer unit" is completely meaningless in itself. You have to know what it means to understand it. Now we are no better in Finland here it is called ryhmäkeskus (group center)
@@okaro6595 Ground Fault Circuit Interrupter GFCI is self explanatory, but the UK we call them RCD Residual Current Device, which is not so helpful. Here a "Wiring Centre" is just a glorified junction box, typically for a central heating system.
this is 100% the most correct terminology . what the hell is a consumer unit if you don't know uk electrical codes?
@@ronblack7870 We used to call them "Fuse boxes" but that got a bit dated when rewireable fuses started to be replaced with Miniature Circuit Breakers (I've never understood what's "miniature" about them).
So I suppose a new word was required that was neither "Fuse" nor "Breaker", as at that time either were commonly used, sometimes both in the same enclosure.
Consumer unit probebly does sound strange, but we are used to the term now, and as you say, anyone messing with one should be familiar with UK regulations, and terminology.
I once dressed in a sealed rubber suit for a chemical decontamination job, with the self contained breathing apparatus, with a tank of air, same as for fire fighters. It was somewhere tropical. That was a hot day of work. Literally not possible to do more than 45 minutes - for lack of air and no ability to let heat out of the suit. Literally could pour the sweat out of my boots. But still, I hate fiberglass insulation more.
fibreglass insulation was banned in california about 25 years ago then unbanned. about 10 years ago, i saw a show about scientists checking the pollution in the air 160kms inland from the california coast. they were stunned to find their samples were full of rockwool and fibreglass fibres. ban the stuff again. all of it.
I love how they have a black cat6 data cable running parallel and attached to the mains voltage cable.
hah yeah. say goodbye to that bandwidth.
In New Zealand, you can buy a used eclectic car for $5,000, and these UK guys will have you install a $3,500 charger and derate it to 10amps using a DIP switch, and you could just plug it into one of those regular 10A wall outlets with an 8Amp EVSE.
You will get about 100-150km of drivable range in 12 hours overnight from an 8Amp. 32A will give you ~400km overnight, that's a lengthy daily commute in the UK or a drive down to the shops in Western Australia.
I'm a sparky in Darwin, and I just found your channel mate.I reckon you got a new subscriber (or is that maybe the beer talking?). Every time they spoke of switching the earth, I think my brain exploded, and 42 degrees is actually bloody hot! I'm surprised the folks in OH&S didn't have a little something to say to them about waiting a few days.
TN system is only allowed in Denmark if you apply to the power provider. TN is mustly used for large business. For all others TT is used, where you have a gruonding rod at your house and one at the 15KV transformer.
Actually, the Earthing and neutral talk is very interesting, please do a video about it. ESPECIALLY about countries which don't have earth at all, like mine. not in switches, not in panels, not in appliances. We just have 2 wires not 3
Where is that? Somewhere in Asia?
@@okaro6595 Africa, Egypt
lol the UK Earthing system and the use of single strand cable blows me away.
this summer in Italy i've experienced 52C°.... yeah...
also here we primarily use TT (usually for home or low power use) or TNS (mainly for industrial use, with the earth-neutral connection near the transformer) systems, you can use IT, TNC or TNCS systems but they are reeeeealy uncommon and strictly regulated.
7:57 - that's how my wiring is done - I thought it was universal, however I have discovered a lot of new builds use different "earth bonding" techniques and this is why you need that "smart box" as it ensures safety in the even that you don't have a dedicated earth. I think it's a bad design choice as it's another point of failure...
In UK and used to have a IT colleague from Australia. Our reaction to him to saying router was much the same as yours to the UK sparky.
We're correct though. 🙂
Pretty sure Australians pronounce 'route' the same as we do in the context of directions from one place to another, and that's where the term router comes from in computer networking.
6:19 never ever disconnect the earth/ PE conductor!! Even if it is a TNC-(S) or TT mains.It seems those lads have absolutely no idea about for what they doing.
The german system is more like the australian system. The different is the earth neutral wires to earth bounding. Thes connection point is a potential bonding bar ist inside the building direkt near meter box and the incomer, so the N and PE (earth) goes separatly to the switch box.
An earth rod or foundation ground is mandatory for each single building. The earth resistance must be lower than 2 Ohms which is difficult to obtain in some areas.
For critical installation a voltage monitor relay can be installed to check for no voltage between N against earth with a seperate earth rod installed at least 20m distance from the main earth rod. These relays are sometimes combined with phase faliure, wrong phase rotation and mains voltage surveilance facilities.
In early installation you will find also the link between the N and earth bar , but it is now forbidden in new installations.
If a customer got an own substation there are different types of earth bounding possible, depends on area and local conditions. The power company decide what to do.
7:55 We know that earthing system too as the TT-system. It's the preferred system nowadays, but it wasn't always so.
I live in an apartment building in which the earth enters the building as a TN-S, so N and PE are separate, only to be combined in a single conductor, so TN-C, going to the consumer units in which they are split again to become a TN-C-S system.
11:00 I'm wondering how this is different from asbestos fibres when inhaled...
If I understand correctly, asbestos is actually poisonous, glass fibers are not. But I'm not an expert
In Canada, our stoves are already on a 220V/40amp circuit. So we can just switch out to an induction stove no problem. :D Canada wins! :D
In the UK ours are as well. The high draw kitchen appliances don't run on the run ring mains.
@@jericho_bees Oh! Cool. I didn't know that. Thank you for letting me know.
7:30 the cable Y cable comming in and out of the supply head is not the point of the neutral-earth link the reason for the 2 cables there is that is a looped supply so one supply from the street is feeding 2 properties. the point the neutral and earth are sepperated is just above on the supply head
That’s not a looped supply . There would be 2x Y if it was looped .
1:40 Wow, I have never seen black PV panel side covers. The look really good, but I guess they hinder air flow.
Oof... Joke about the queen but who could've known what'd happen six days later? 😬
The reason they switch off the grounding connection is that the cables underground between houses are sometimes very old, and they can be very different. basically they have to work around the mistakes of the past.
The PEN fault contactor is designed to _completey_ disconnect the car from the mains supply because a PEN fault could present a situation where the earthed metal body of the car is live at 230V which is why they break the Earth. It's switched to emulate as if you were literally unplugging the car.
Cheers mate, I do understand the concept. It's just unfortunate that it has to be implemented due to the UK supply arrangements.
Yeah, that complicated device for detecting a PEN fault doesn't really make any sense to me either. If I understand correctly, the US does things the same way as Australia does, and actually mandates that the ground line must be connected to an actual grounding rod at the same point that the ground and neutral are connected together (in the main customer panel), which would actually physically prevent that condition from occurring in the first place. I don't understand why the British regs don't just mandate a grounding rod like everyone else instead of this whole "switched ground" thing.
We do actually have a grounding rod in curtain places. We have three different systems with (tn-c-s) is most popular but we have a TT which is where you have a grounding rod. And it is mandated in some circumstances that you change to a TT system.
US has the split phase. If you charge an EV at 240 V the neutral is basically at 0 V even if it breaks. In the UK it is at 240 V. It then goes to the entire car.
Ground rods do not save you. They are like aspirin to cancer pains. They may make you feel safe.
you can also ground your system to a metal pipe where it enters the house from outside usually basement in usa
@@okaro6595 Ground rods absolutely save you if you have a proper grounding system. Nothing prevents you from making a grounding sysyem under 1 Ohm.
The orientation: UK standard discourage you from yanking cord to pull out a plug, because the cord comes out from the bottom and you just can't yank it out that way.
AU one doesn't, and potentially inviting damage.
Arizona here, regularly gets up to about 48c (~120f) every summer. I guess since it's very regular here we've figured out some of the tricks to not literally dying after 2 hours
I did a show in Phoenix it was 102 in the day......105 at 3am!!! IT GOT THREE DEGREES HOTTER AT NIGHT!!! Phoenix should not exist. Stop living there people! Just move! God is punishing you for your hubris!
Damn, that is rough, especially for people who live in a normally cold climate. The same thing happened to me in the summer of 2021. At the time, The region of America in which I live in was a skin-melting 115°F (46.1°C) and because of wildfires, my AC’s air filter was getting clogged with ash, and smoke, and shit.
Barely made it out of that one. 😅
In the the US we bond natural and ground at the first means of disconnect.
Yes. And you must maintain the separation on any subpanels. Also, pretty sure most jurisdictions would scream if you had some sort of device that could disconnect ground. Sounds like the US is actually pretty similar to what Australia does. One interesting thing is that alot of places in the US are starting to move away from ground rods. Instead alot of new builds will leave a piece of the rebar from the foundation exposed and use that as the ground rod instead. Turns out it actually makes a pretty good ground, often better than a simple ground rod.
I'm in Canada and interrupting the protective earth makes absolutely no sense to me! We also have grounding rods and code requires neutral and earth to be bounded in a single place (usually the main distribution panel or main disconnect).
Same in the US, Ground, and Neutral are bonded in the main panel only. Everywhere else they are separate including in subpanels. Subpanel in a outbuilding the US would have its own ground rod since it is a separate structure.
It’s a real simple one . If the neutral is high resistance or disconnected at the transformer all grounded metal floats at mains potential. Your ground rod will help this but won’t stop shocks outdoors or against lower impedance paths . That is why the grounding conductor automatically disconnects.
3:35. They're wearing sunnies not because of the daylight, but because they're wearing shorts.
Yes but what you might not have noticed is that we have the ground connected to the gas bond and the water bond and when high voltage and amperage and anything else as well as in electrical EV charger we do put in a copper or metal rod for grounding
TT isn't used regularly in the UK outside of rural areas. Urban areas are often terraced housing and if you tried to put a TT stake in you'd have a good change of hitting gas/water/telecom or sewer services. For the 18th Edition they did want a TT to be put in on every consumer unit/breaker panel upgrade but realised it was unachievable. Hence PEN fault devices.
In Finland we prefer building the electrode n the base of the building or using a 40 m horizontal electrode (on TN-C-S, TT is not used here)
I'm in a terraced house and I have to have an earth rod as PME is not permitted.
@@okaro6595 By definition that would be classes as TT here.
Lol I see you've never worked in Darwin and similarly northern parts of Aus. The mechanic workshop I worked in was regularly well above 45 or higher. Gotta love tin walls and roofs.
But I have always found it funny when some countries complain it is hot even mid to high 20s
i keep my house at 60 F all year round (15 C)
@@ronblack7870 damn what country you in for that? Your power bill must be massive. Of course don't need to answer if you don't want to
here in the philippines tncs system dont exist we just use the earth as the neutral if you are really lazy or due to budget cuts
It's an iec EV standard worldwide to do a continuous PEN testing at the EVSE the PE is disconnected with a contacter because the 400VDC vehicle battery is a massive source of danger , this you are totally forgetting
The code in my country, EVSE Circuit need to only run outside or in metallic conduit or underground, can go inside only if need to access to for consumer unit.
Also the one responsible to cut all wires to charger port is EVSE itself, why you need to install in consumer unit LOL.
EVSE circuit are preferred to use TT earthing which different from house which use TNC-S because G/PE wire to house may becoming fire hazard with huge amount of current when EVSE circuit at fault, which is usually 7.2KW or 32A at 230V, 1/3 to 2/3 of most household utility circuit rating. To use TNC-S earthing resistance need to be under limit from the EVSE installation point.
Or use separate utility / consumer unit.
But they run through the "LOFT" .. just another FIRE HAZARD.
I am IEEE Certified for Commercial/Industrial Electrical Installation, up to 5000V live work certified. In a Shop or Factory I can install Sockets, Lights, Appliances [Cooker, Fryer, Heaters, Solar, etc.] and Certify it SAFE for the public to use. If I do the same in a Residential home I am NOT qualified??? Part of the IEEE regulations is ALL of the residential codes, the other 3/4 is Commercial and Industrial e.g. 3 phase 415V at 500A+ circuits, etc. British Codes & Regs are absurd.
That’s super interesting 🤔
The UK obviously has a ring circuit as opposed to a radial circuit that most of the world have, including you and me.
An earth rod does not protect efficiently in TN-C-S. If the rod has impedance of 19 ohm and the incoming wire 1 ohm the rod has still 95% of the mains voltage. Of course in a PEN fault the current does not go directly to the rod but through the house electric system. So if the house system has impedance of 18 ohm which is achieved at 3200 watts the rod still has 120 V.
There is an alternative to make the charging point TT. But that requires a separate earth rod. UK uses single phase which increases the voltage in case the PEN-fault. This is a special rule for EV chargers. Inside the house bonding provides enough protection.
Great overview mate. So what do you think about the switching of the earth
There is absolutely nothing in this world preventing you from makking a grounding system under 1 Ohm. Why are you talking about 19 Ohms?
He is saying the cable run not the CU - The reson we remove the CPC as well as P / N so if there is a fault on the lime all are disconnected full safety. We have more then you say about earthing. Your separate earth is like are TT get a UK book and read it. The disconnection is also for a fault from the car back in to the property. TNC TNCS TT IT look at are earth system.
What do you mean by "large separate circuit" at 13:52? In the US the normal connection for an electric range and oven is 50A 240V. How much current do your non-induction cooktops use down there?
OMG that is a large oven for AUS. Anywhere from 10 to 20A is normal
@@thinklist The oven and range are combined in one appliance with one plug, so it's potentially four burners and also the oven elements on at the same time.
In Finland a typical range is connected with 3x16A though a single phase 20 A is also an option but one cannot then utilize it fully.
This is just a spoof with zero research. The Mains consumer unit is downstairs to the grid. It's usually placed as close to the point of exit as possible since it connects to the National grid meter via SEG. They have referred to the wrong equipment as a consumer unit. What they are referring to is the inverter which connects to the solar installation and is usually in the loft as close to the panels entry point the cable from the inverter is then dropped down to the mains at ground floor level. Our earth is usually done the same way as you show Australia. Fibreglass is unlawful in the UK and has been for decades due to cancer risk. If it was found work would have to stop there and then while specialists are brought it to remove it. We tend to use Rockwool or similar for insulation. I'd be looking for a better installer. It's very rare to have a garage so far away from the house, our property size is just not large enough. It is much more usual to have a powerwall, like the Tesla's attached to the side of the property. You can't just stick a label on somewhere that should be earthed it's against regulations. This is more usual: th-cam.com/video/vKWykHLzL7A/w-d-xo.htmlsi=HFZnm9FaC8amcj3Z
ERRF the armouring 🤣🤣
i like how you make fun of the poms. at 8:49 you point out the good sense of earth stakes. the problem with earth rods is they dont go deep enough (1200mm)here in perth. the ground can be dry that deep underground at the start of autumn. 1800mm should be safe. the law requires the switchboard earth to be connected to the plumbing unless there is a plastic pipe connecting the house to the ground. i made sure my plumbing has such a plastic pipe for safety reasons. there are still deaths every year because of this requirement to join the earth to the house plumbing.
The loft here in the US is called the attic.
Loft and attic are pretty interchangeable in the uk. Based on region
Wait. The British don't connect the earth to the Earth?
Well kinda but yeah
In the UK the responsibility to ground the neutral is on the provider only, not on the user. It is naturally grounded on several places (PME).
@@okaro6595 Where is it naturally grounded and what is PME?
As a f user 40° is cooler weather then I remember they us c, question, what actually is better should usa switch to c
Personally for me the heat isn't much of a issue its only when its like 87F out with like 85% humidity that it makes me feel like I'm dying. I'd take 97F dry heat any day though.
Humidity is always high in the UK side effect of being an island and a relatively long and skinny one at that. Means you are always close to a large body of water thus the average outdoor humidity ranges between 70-90% about as far inland as you can get and even higher near the coasts.
@@seraphina985 Damn thats gotta suck.
Change the title to "Sparkie Reacts to British Electricians on the HOTTEST Day Ever"
Genuinely, I'm sure it would get more views
I simply cannot work in heat, and unless I'm chilling with a cold beer I try to avoid it. The climate of Iceland 🇮🇸 would do me forever please.
Um, We in "Murca call those things, the "Service or Breaker Box" and "The Attic"
Let's put in a "wadial" or a "wing" circuit(r) 😆😆
White collar worker here - love your show, but just had to speak up. This may come as a shock to you, but white collar workers also do not like heat. Can't argue that it's worse for blue collar tho - typing at a keyboard might suck at 40C, but at least I'm not creating EXTRA heat with physical labor 😢
I’d love to see you react to more Photonicinduction videos, he’s a very interesting bloke cause he seems to know a hell of a lot about the details but is doing all the work in a little house with burnt carpets and a can of Carling! I think he made a video of cutting off his streets electric if I remember?!
Watching this, in the U.K. in November 2022 and longing for 42 degrees.
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I'm in Canada (Toronto) at the beginning of July, we haven't hit 40°C this year yet (rarely do) but we had a week of nearly 35°C in May or June (thankfully minimal humidity) and I'm ready for -20°C already. 🤣🤣 But I am the exception, not the rule, most people here love 30°C+ temps. My body does not do well in the heat, 5mins just standing in the sun at 23°C and I'm sweating profusely. Thankfully, I do IT, so I get to work inside, usually with AC, 95% of the time.
@@technerd9655 it’s early July in the U.K. it was 30 a few weeks ago. Yesterday about 13!!
That solar panel edge trim👌👌 Why don’t we have that here in Australia?… ours just looks slapped on😞
Traps heat which reduces both efficiency and longevity. Flow through ventilation is your friend.
Keeps snow from sliding under the panels and pulling the wires. Also keeps birds from building nests under the panels.
Why is this guy calling me a pom it literally makes no sense
We have coming in Phase and sheath looks like single core SWA we're neutral and the earth are combined PME multiple earthing on the incoming at junctions from house to house also back at sub station.
I laugh every time I hear a brit say rooter. Funny thing is in US English route is pronounced sometimes like the way normal people say router, but also the british root as in root 130, sometimes both ways in the same breath,. So have no business laughing but I can't help myself. I have to ask though, if the police come to your house hunting for a pervy router, do they do a cavity search?
We go to 113 ferinheit in Oklahoma and no one was complaining
Oh WOW 45 degrees is bloody hot 🥵
@@thinklist granted I don’t go outside anyways
@@hypocritical7379 😆
so what if the car/charger has a fault and back-feeds it's 300+ VDC into the charger and down the line and the earth is broken? Nice, now everything is live at 300+VDC, yup, that's not dangerous at all! 😆
If the earth is connected it feeds 300v back into the house .
Artisan electrics are an amazing company and TH-cam channel they have some of the best content
7:51 - as a UK electrician, I am thankful that I do not have to install an earth rod at every installation...
I mean yes they are a pain to install but as a system they work quite well
if you love the heat come to California during the summer were in a drought and we have been getting heat at about 105-115 every day.
Everyday WOW
It is unusual in the UK to have an earth electrodes at each property (unlike other countries, such as Ireland).
I've got one in my house. PME is not permitted on my property for some reason.
Consider the switched earth as part of a large battery (EV) isolator rather than an earth, then its sane.
Consumer unit 🇬🇧 = panel 🇺🇲
Loft 🇬🇧 = attic 🇺🇲
42 ? what is that in real degrees?
Oh, but of course we have to go into the attic crawl in 40+ degree with a blazing sun weather!
it's the only time we go there!
quick quiz!
was that in F? or C?
I know which I would prefer to go into attics :)
Definitely in C
@@thinklist That of course was the ambient temp.
Being an Alarm tech by trade. the roof had just been replaced, they closed the ventilation off along the hips, and it blew all of the 185F/85C heat detectors,(5 of them)
I disconnected the circuit and told them I would be back at 6am to replace them.
it was still over 40c in that attic the next morning
42deg in the UK is utter horseshit - those figures come from airports where typhoon jets were taking off...
This guy is scared of absolutely anything foreign
Finally!!!!!
😆 oh man this took ages to edit 🎬 but I’m pretty happy with how it turned out. Hope you enjoy 💪
There are quite a lot of winger moaners on TH-cam... (Disclaimer probably me too?..
More photonicinduction videos would be great
Hi, I have to admit some of our electrical rules and regulations are a bit screwy, but the thing is your walls and regulations are just as scary as ours. Even more. You might not think that always makes any sense, but it is the exact same for us with yours, not to be mean or anything
All the sarcastic laughter makes your videos much less enjoyable to watch, sorry... When you explain in a natural way I really listen. Hope you can improve...
As a Californian..... 'awe poor, pasty white babies....' Do pest control iin August in the desert, then you can complain about the heat..... 2 gallons of Gatorade every day. I physically cannot drink Gatorade anymore, gives me the runs.....
Hahahaha, that is a shit load of Gatorade 💩
You are bitter because you haven't got a proving unit. Admit it. Wait... Are there Proving-Unit Proving-Units? And what if that breaks? Damn... I need to get a Proving-Unit Proving-Unit Proving-Unit. God shave the King!
I'm not too sure why they are calling it a consumer unit, I'm from the UK and we all just call it a fuse box or breaker box
"over engineered British bullshit!" Never do we overcomplicating things, we just do it the long way round lol
My house had fiberglass insulation and I had to climb down the inside of the roof (I have a strange roof layout), when I got out I had microcuts all over myself
My question is why is there such a large voltage drop over a cable such as the one in the video? Is the voltage drop fixable without making the cable super thick? Thanks for any reply!
Now a breaker box I can get 👍
😆 I mean the Brit’s can do it well sometimes too well.
Great question: because the voltage is low (relatively) it doesn’t take much to fall outside the threshold.
There are other things you can do but they’re not very practical.
1. You could boast the supply voltage but that needs to be within its own tolerance.
2. You could place auto transformers to boost the voltage.
There are several other factors but nothing really beats just installing a larger cable.
@@thinklist thanks for the reply! 😁
The consumer unit is stupid term as if you hear it without knowing what it is you cannot in anyway know what it is. Electric panel, breaker box, fuse box, all tell you immediately what it is if you know basics of electricity.
They're calling it a consumer unit because that's what it is. 🤦
@@thinklist In the US the specified wire for a 15 amp circuit is 14 gauge. I never use that, except when adding onto an existing 14 gauge run because mixing gauges is no bueno. I run 12 gauge so it's equally good for a 15 or 20 amp circuit. Most inspectors love seeing 12 gauge on 15 amp circuits because they know *that* won't ever be the cause of an electrical fire. When I had to do a 40 foot dedicated run for a 230V 20 amp heat pump I used 10 gauge, just to be sure. For the new wire to the oven/range I ran 6 gauge. Inside the conduit I found 8 gauge that was quite crusty with cracked insulation. That had been an upgrade from the 10 gauge original wire which had been cut off at both ends and left in the conduit. All those got pulled out so the new and plenty big wires could go in easily. There's still more corrections and upgrades to do, including a dedicated 20 amp circuit to the utility room and backyard outside outlet with those weird 20 amp US outlets that have one sideways T shaped slot. Fortunately the NEC allows a 110~115V and a 220~240V circuit to be run in the same conduit so I can use the new conduit I put in for the heat pump.
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It`s bad manners to make fun of people with a speech impediment.
In America everything we do is better because we were home to both Nikola Tesla and Thomas Edison.
Edison ruined electrical distribution in your country.
@@persona250 our electricity is distributed by the Tesla/Westinghouse AC system...
@@bobdole57 Edison patented the 3 wire split phase system.
@@persona250 split phase power isn't a problem
@@bobdole57 it was great for him he made a fortune out of the patent which left Americans with only 110v in homes . Too much cost to change the distribution system saw another 110v line brought into houses to compensate for a lack of power which led to double pole breakers and ridiculously large panels and a over complicated distribution system.
All this could have been avoided with teslas simple 3 phase system powering homes . And coincidentally teslas life was ruined when he moved to the US .
The switched earth is bloody stupid for sure. No reason to do that.
Are you dumb ? Explains why in the video .
So they wear aussie boots…..
Ughh these pasty t bags🙄🙄😆😆
Yeeeeeeeah, interrupting the ground is a bad idea.
AGREE!!! NEVER SWITCH THE EARTH/GROUND!!!!
Only your lack of knowledge sees this as bad .
@@persona250 do realize i'm an electrician.. and it just looks like the UK way of doing things is a bit broken.. because if you swich the ground, and the swich gets old, at some point it may no longer connect the ground, ground should be a fixt connection so no matter what puts a voltage on the system, it will be grounded..
@@TheBrainlessSteel are you from America? Neutral and earth bonded together, lost neutral at transformer = voltage potential on all grounded metalwork that includes the car body . It’s not a switch it’s a fault protection relay .
This is the UK, the weirdos that have switches on every fucken plug lol. I think the French do earth the same way Aussies do. We just redid ours in my appt since it was extremely old.
Artisan visited France and did a video on our electrical system and he prefers it to the UK one.
The switches weren't always a thing. Cynical me says someone made a lot of money off of that rule change.
I mean it comes in handy. Sometimes you dont want something on but you dont want to pull the plug out and in all the time, just wack the switch on and off.
UK electrical systems are just... Weird, to stay polite
You have not seen the Finnish ones. My apartment gets separate earth and neutral. On the consumer unit they are joined and a common wire goes to the sockets where they are separated. The consumer unit has RCDs but they are not connected as they cannot be used on a PEN-wire.
@@okaro6595 ouh wow! Running PEN to outlets is illegal in GER since the 70s :O
I mean that in itself isn't the weird thing. But having RCDs then...
Nice to learn about other places :)
@@okaro6595 No separate ground to the socket? Totally different to what I'm used to. I live in Cook county near Chicago. All residential wiring is metal boxes and metal conduit which doubles as a ground. You can at least use up to a 6 foot (2M) flexible conduit "whip" but otherwise get ready to bend pipe.
I'm afraid you kinda lost me on the ground-neutral stuff. Maybe I'm just less knowledgeable than your usual audience tho
Oh the horrible eFIXX guys with bad tips in shorts to make even more money than with the sponsorships. Egh.
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We say root in Australia too not rowt, we aren't yanks.
When someone mocks people for the way they say things in the language that was invented where the people he's mocking come from...
Please do another video on styro pyro in the future, all his videos are mind boggling
It’s definitely on the cards