The IET’s Wiring Matters publication looks in detail at what Amendment 3 means for domestic consumer units and similar switchgear assembles:
The third amendment to BS 7671:2011 (IET Wiring Regulations Seventeenth Edition), which was published in January and comes into effect on the 1st of July, will include a new regulation requiring consumer units and similar switchgear assemblies in domestic premises to have a non-combustible enclosure.
In the following article, originally published in – and courtesy of - the IET’s ‘Wiring Matters’ in-house publication, the organisation takes a long look at what this will mean. Go to: http://electrical.theiet.org/wiring-matters/55/consumer-units/index.cfm
For further articles about BS 7671, please go to: http://electrical.theiet.org/wiring-matters/index.cfm