Hi Folks I second Richard Hughes' comments, but would also add the following:
- The IEC 60634/HD 384/ BS7671 etc documents are aimed at wiring installation designers - and they certainly differ from country to country in many respects, notably in the sections on special locations, and in some of the national wiring requirements (e.g. local cables, sockets, plugs and over-current protection requirements). - In addition, each country has its own sets of national and /or electrical contractors installation and verification guides which give "the local" interpretations. However, most of the guides are only available in the national language! (Done a bit of that over the years!) Therefore, you would have to identify one or more sample countries and put in some considerable work to investigate those in detail to get the "flavours" being sought. John Allen ERA Technology Ltd From: richhug...@aol.com [mailto:richhug...@aol.com] Sent: 22 April 2003 15:29 To: richwo...@tycoint.com; emc-p...@majordomo.ieee.org Subject: re: Fiber and AC mains wire runs Richard, As I mentioned in my original reply, the building wiring rules vary from one country within the EU to another. While it is true that the UK Wiring Regulations (BSI 7671) are based on the CENELEC Harmonised Document HD384, which is itself based on the IEC 60364 series of standards, it would be wrong of someone to think that if they purchased a copy of BS 7671 and then based their whole European installation strategy on this UK document that they would be certain not to have difficulties elsewhere in Europe. Of course, if someone wanted to know what the requirements are in the UK and thereby get a 'flavour' of the requirements elsewhere, then that would be a different matter and BS 7671 (also known as the IEE Wiring Regulations) would be a good place to start. They may also wish to look at the IEE web site (www.iee.org) for books that provide aditional guidance when applying the IEE Wiring Regulations. Regards, Richard Hughes. From: richwo...@tycoint.com [mailto:richwo...@tycoint.com] Sent: 22 April 2003 13:57 To: emc-p...@majordomo.ieee.org Subject: RE: Fiber and AC mains wire runs The EU wiring rules are based upon HD384 which is based upon IEC 60364. You can purchase a single part copy as BSI 7671. Richard Woods Sensormatic Electronics Tyco International From: John Woodgate [mailto:j...@jmwa.demon.co.uk] Sent: Wednesday, April 16, 2003 5:26 PM To: emc-p...@majordomo.ieee.org Subject: Re: Fiber and AC mains wire runs I read in !emc-pstc that Cereceres, David <dcerece...@pelco.com> wrote (in <b2cc0e0f2c10d511b86600b0d06898420541f...@localhost.pelco.dns>) about 'Fiber and AC mains wire runs' on Wed, 16 Apr 2003: >Is there a European equivalent of the NEC that I could possibly reference? 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