Nick,
Thanks for your advice. For standalone rewirable plug on sale in the market, it still normally comes with a wiring card attached so there are still wiring instructions for the user in case they need to replace with a new plug. Regards, Scott From: Nick Williams [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: 2009年8月5日 5:07 To: Scott Xe Cc: <[email protected]> Subject: Re: Wiring instructions for mains plug Apologies, I was trying to send this message from my mobile phone and it threw a wobbler and sent the message before I had finished composing it. What I meant to say was: In the UK, the fitting of BS1362 style three pin plugs to retail products intended for consumer use has been mandatory since the introduction of the Plugs and Sockets (Safety) Regulations 1994. These Regulations also repealed earlier legislation which mandated a requirement to provide wiring instructions in the form of a label attached to the cord. Once the fitting of plugs became mandatory the cable label was deemed superfluous. Therer has never been (so far as I am aware) a legal requirement to put wiring instructions in the product manual, although this was frequently done since the minimum requirements for the content of the mandatory label were not actually sufficient to tell someone how to wire a plug so most companies felt it more elegant to use the greater space provided by the manual as an opportunity to give a proper set of wiring instructions. Despite the fact that the requirement to give wiring information was removed with the introduction the mandatory fitting of plugs, few companies ever properly understood the legal requirements (since in most cases appliance manufacturers purchased cords with the labels already attached so the duties under the legal obligation were subcontracted to someone else anyway) so it's not entirely unexpected that they should fail to understand the repeal of the legislation either. Nick. At 17:57 +0100 4/8/09, Nick Williams wrote: >In the UK, the fitting of BS1362 style three pin plugs to retail >products intended for consumer use has been mandatory since the >introduction of the Plugs and Sockets (Safety) Regulations 1994. >These Regulations also repealed earlier legislation which mandated a >requirement to provide wiring instructions in the form of a label >attached to the cord. Once the fitting of plugs became mandatory the >cable label was deemed superfluous. > > > >On 4 Aug 2009, at 15:23, Scott Xe ><<mailto:[email protected]>[email protected]> wrote: > >>In the UK, before the electrical appliances were required to be >>fitted with a 13A fused plug, all the user guides have the wiring >>instructions. Thereafter, the wiring instructions becomes >>unnecessary. >> >> >> >>However, the wiring instructions remain in the user guide for the >>reason that it is helpful for the users when they replace the plug >>with a new one. >> >> >> >>I have learnt that the main reason to have a fitted plug is to >>avoid the users to fit the plug by themselves. Is it true? >> >> >> >>If that is true, putting the wiring instructions in user guide >>seems to work against the government policy. Nowadays, most of >>user guides do not have it but some still remain to have it. >> >> >> >>Regards, >> >> >> >>Scott >> - This message is from the IEEE Product Safety Engineering Society emc-pstc discussion list. To post a message to the list, send your e-mail to <[email protected]> All emc-pstc postings are archived and searchable on the web at: http://www.ieeecommunities.org/emc-pstc Graphics (in well-used formats), large files, etc. can be posted to that URL. Website: http://www.ieee-pses.org/ Instructions: http://listserv.ieee.org/request/user-guide.html List rules: http://www.ieee-pses.org/listrules.html For help, send mail to the list administrators: Scott Douglas <[email protected]> Mike Cantwell <[email protected]> For policy questions, send mail to: Jim Bacher: <[email protected]> David Heald: <[email protected]>
