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2. Electrical wiring in the United Kingdom - Wikipedia

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   Many accessories for electrical installations (e.g., wall sockets, switches) sold in the UK are designed to fit into the mounting boxes defined in BS 4662:2006—Boxes for flush mounting of electrical accessories—Requirements, test methods and dimensions, with an 86 mm × 86 mm square face plate that is fixed to the rest of the enclosure by ...

3. AC power plugs and sockets: British and related types

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   British standards have proliferated throughout large parts of the former British Empire. BS 1363, 13 A plugs socket-outlets adaptors and connection units is a British Standard which specifies the most common type of single-phase AC power plugs and sockets that are used in the United Kingdom.

4. List of British Standards - Wikipedia

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   BS 31 Specification for Steel Conduits for Electrical Wiring; BS 32 Specification for Steel Bars for use in Automatic Machines; BS 33 Carbon Filament Electric Lamps; BS 34 Tables of BS Whitworth, BS Fine and BS Pipe Threads; BS 35 Specification for Copper Alloy Bars for use in Automatic Machines; BS 36 Report on British Standards for Electrical ...

5. BS 7671 - Wikipedia

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   IET Wiring Regulations", informally called in the UK electrical community "The Regs", is the national standard in the United Kingdom for electrical installation and the safety of electrical wiring systems. [1] It did not become a recognized British Standard until after the publication of the 16th edition in 1992.

6. Distribution board - Wikipedia

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   The box pictured top-right is a "Wylex standard" fitted with rewirable fuses. These boxes can also be fitted with cartridge fuses or miniature circuit breakers (MCBs). This type of consumer unit was very popular in Britain until 2001 when wiring regulations mandated residual-current device (RCD) protection for sockets that could "reasonably be ...

7. AC power plugs and sockets - Wikipedia

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   The standard defines a hierarchical system of plugs and sockets with two, three and five pins, and 10 A or 16 A ratings. Sockets will accept plugs with the same or fewer pins and the same or lower ratings. [55] The standard also includes three-phase devices rated at 250 V (phase-to-neutral) / 440 V (phase-to-phase). [56]

8. Electrical code - Wikipedia

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   An electrical code is a term for a set of regulations for the design and installation of electrical wiring in a building. The intention of such regulations is to provide standards to ensure electrical wiring systems are safe for people and property, protecting them from electrical shock and fire hazards. They are usually based on a model code ...

9. IEC 60364 - Wikipedia

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   IEC 60364 Electrical Installations for Buildings is the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC)'s international standard on electrical installations of buildings.This standard is an attempt to harmonize national wiring standards in an IEC standard and is published in the European Union by CENELEC as "HD 60364".