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Guidance Note 3: Inspection & Testing 8th edition [Pehme köide]

  • Formaat: Paperback / softback, 156 pages, kõrgus x laius: 297x210 mm
  • Sari: Electrical Regulations
  • Ilmumisaeg: 25-Sep-2018
  • Kirjastus: Institution of Engineering and Technology
  • ISBN-10: 1785614525
  • ISBN-13: 9781785614521
Teised raamatud teemal:
  • Formaat: Paperback / softback, 156 pages, kõrgus x laius: 297x210 mm
  • Sari: Electrical Regulations
  • Ilmumisaeg: 25-Sep-2018
  • Kirjastus: Institution of Engineering and Technology
  • ISBN-10: 1785614525
  • ISBN-13: 9781785614521
Teised raamatud teemal:

Guidance Note 3: Inspection & Testing is a fundamental guidance book for all those involved with the testing and inspection of electrical installations. It also contains essential guidance for those studying for inspection and testing qualifications and has been fully updated to BS 7671:2018.



Guidance Note 3: Inspection & Testing is a fundamental guidance book for all those involved with the testing and inspection of electrical installations. It also contains essential guidance for those studying for inspection and testing qualifications and has been fully updated to BS 7671:2018.

The 18th Edition IET Wiring Regulations publishes in July 2018 and comes into effect on 1st January 2019. All new installations from this point must comply with BS 7671:2018.

Cooperating organisations 6(1)
Acknowledgements 7(1)
Preface 8(1)
Introduction 9(2)
Chapter 1 General requirements
11(6)
1.1 Safety
11(1)
1.2 Required competence
12(1)
1.3 The client
13(1)
1.3.1 Certificates and Reports
13(1)
1.3.2 Rented domestic and residential accommodation
13(1)
1.4 Additions and alterations
13(1)
1.5 Departures and non-compliance
14(1)
1.6 Record keeping
14(3)
Chapter 2 Initial verification
17(64)
2.1 Purpose of initial verification
17(1)
2.2 Certificates
18(1)
2.3 Required information
19(1)
2.4 Frequency of subsequent inspections
20(1)
2.5 Initial inspection
20(20)
2.5.1 General procedure
20(1)
2.5.2 Comments on individual items to be inspected
21(12)
2.5.3 Inspection checklist
33(7)
2.6 Initial testing
40(41)
2.6.1 Test results
40(1)
2.6.2 Electrical Installation Certificate
40(1)
2.6.3 Model forms
41(1)
2.6.4 The sequence of tests
41(1)
2.6.5 Continuity of protective conductors, including main and supplementary bonding
41(4)
2.6.6 Continuity of ring final circuit conductors
45(4)
2.6.7 Insulation resistance
49(4)
2.6.8 Confirming SELV or PELV circuits by insulation resistance testing
53(1)
2.6.9 Testing of electrically separated circuits
54(1)
2.6.10 Testing of functional extras-low voltage (FELV) circuits
55(1)
2.6.11 Protection by barriers or enclosures provided during erection
56(1)
2.6.12 Proving and testing of non-conducting location (insulation resistance/impedance of floors and walls)
56(3)
2.6.13 Polarity testing
59(1)
2.6.14 Earth electrode resistance testing
60(5)
2.6.15 Protection by automatic disconnection of supply
65(1)
2.6.16 Earth fault loop impedance verification
65(3)
2.6.17 Prospective fault current, lpf
68(5)
2.6.18 Phase sequence testing
73(1)
2.6.19 Operation and functional testing of RCDs
74(2)
2.6.20 Other functional testing
76(1)
2.6.21 Verification of voltage drop
76(1)
2.6.22 Verification in medical locations
77(1)
2.6.23 Verification of protection of low voltage installations against temporary overvoltages due to faults in the high voltage or low voltage system
77(1)
2.6.24 Verification of protection against overvoltages of atmospheric origin or due to switching
78(1)
2.6.25 Verification of measures against electromagnetic disturbances
78(3)
Chapter 3 Periodic inspection and testing
81(26)
3.1 Purpose of periodic inspection and testing
81(1)
3.2 Necessity for periodic inspection and testing
81(1)
3.3 Electricity at Work Regulations
82(1)
3.4 Design
83(1)
3.5 Routine checks
83(1)
3.6 Required information
84(1)
3.7 Frequency of periodic inspections
85(3)
3.8 Requirements for periodic inspection and testing
88(5)
3.8.1 Scope
88(1)
3.8.2 Process - prior to carrying out inspection and testing
89(1)
3.8.3 General procedure
89(2)
3.8.4 Setting inspection and testing samples
91(2)
3.9 Periodic inspection
93(5)
3.9.1 Example checklist of items that require inspection
93(5)
3.10 Periodic testing
98(4)
3.10.1 General
98(1)
3.10.2 Tests to be made
98(2)
3.10.3 Additional notes on periodic testing
100(2)
3.11 Electrical Installation Condition Report
102(3)
3.12 Periodic inspection of installations constructed to an earlier edition of BS 7671 or the IEE Wiring Regulations
105(2)
Chapter 4 Test instruments and equipment
107(12)
4.1 Instrument standard
107(1)
4.2 Instrument accuracy
107(2)
4.3 Low-resistance ohmmeters
109(1)
4.4 Insulation resistance testers
109(1)
4.5 Earth fault loop impedance testers
110(3)
4.6 Earth electrode resistance testers
113(1)
4.7 RCD testers
113(1)
4.8 Phase rotation instruments
114(1)
4.9 Thermographic equipment
114(5)
Chapter 5 Forms
119(20)
5.1 Initial verification (inspection and testing) forms
119(1)
5.2 Minor works
120(1)
5.3 Periodic inspection and testing
120(1)
5.4 Model forms for certification and reporting
121(18)
Appendix A Maximum permissible measured earth fault loop impedance
139(8)
A1 Tables
139(4)
A2 Appendix 3 of BS 7671
143(1)
A3 Methods of adjusting tabulated values of Zs
144(3)
Appendix B Resistance of copper and aluminium conductors
147(4)
B1 Standard overcurrent devices
149(1)
B2 Steel-wire armour, steel conduit and steel trunking
150(1)
Index 151