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Earth Leakage trip v RCD/RCCB
Mar 2^nd, 2009, 11:46am

I am looking at the mains electric circuits on board an old boat. They currently have an old 60 amp 2 pole Earth leakage trip on the incoming, leading to a standard fused 4 way consumer unit. All works ok but would it be safer to/and should they change to an RCD or an RCCB incoming device and change the consumer unit to an MCB consumer unit. On shore the mains supply has its own Earth trip and supply is through another fused box.

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Y3 GDPR opt-out	Re: Earth Leakage trip v RCD/RCCB Reply #1 - Mar 8^th, 2009, 10:53am Our regs dont apply to boats, but an RCD would be better.
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squirrel Trade Member Offline d'oh Posts: 801 Total Thanks: 1 For This Post: 0 Gender: Trade: Electrician	Re: Earth Leakage trip v RCD/RCCB Reply #2 - Mar 8^th, 2009, 1:45pm Have a look at this http://www.theiet.org/publishing/wiring-regulations/mag/2008/29-houseboats.cfm?t... Also Earth Leakage CBs if voltage operated are outside of BS7671
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Y3 GDPR opt-out Total Thanks: 1 For This Post: 0	Re: Earth Leakage trip v RCD/RCCB Reply #3 - Mar 8^th, 2009, 4:32pm Interesting read
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