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Universal Earth Leakage Protection Relay from FDB Electrical
The EFR-2 Earth Leakage Protection Relay from FDB is part of their Optima range of low cost, high specification RCDs. It is especially suited to protection of all types of electrical machinery for the benefit of maintenance personnel. It offers an extremely wide range of performance and can be specified across extensive trip levels and response times for precise system control which is especially valuable for large industrial and automated machin... [more]
BEST Services design and install structural lightning protection system at the highest building in England and Wales
BEST Services Ltd, lightning protection specialists and ATLAS (Association of Technical Lightning and Access Specialists) member, have designed and installed a structural lightning protection system to protect the highest building in England and Wales. This important multi-million pound, three year project involved the demolition of the existing café at the summit of Mt Snowdon and construction of the brand new Hafod Eryri Visitors Centre and... [more]
DirecElec launches online store for electrical protection devices
DirecElec offers single source shopping for soundly engineered and competitively priced circuit breakers, consumer units and other electrical safety wiring accessories. The company has now launched their online store for electrical protection devices. The web site has been designed to be easy to use. It offers a full range of consumer units, miniature circuit breakers, residual current operated breakers, isolation switches and other essential... [more]
Test your RCDs regularly to be protected against electric shock
An RCD is a Residual Current Device. Usually it is a big switch in your fuse board but it can be next to the fuse board or somewhere else. It is usually as wide as two of the normal switches and it has an on/off switch and an important little plastic button with a ‘T’ embossed on it. Without going into the boring technical stuff what it does is monitor the flow of electricity around the circuits it is guarding. As soon as it gets even a minute sn... [more]
FDB Electrical announces IP65 rated FDB 19 heavy duty electrical protection units
FDB Electrical have recently announced their IP65 rated FDB 19 series for applications throughout industry from construction sites, mines and quarries, to the protection of stage lighting systems where thyristor spikes can trip conventional RCDs. FDB 19 series is a range of heavy duty electrical protection units designed to overcome inherent earth leakage or inrush currents. The units combine a variable sensitivity and time delay RCD, together... [more]
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