Or the lighting circuit if more convenient...
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Heated Towel Rails and Lighting Circuits
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The message from "Dave Plowman (News)" contains these words:
Except that on a split-load CU the lighting circuit won't have a RCD.
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Shouldn't matter if the lighting circuit is earthed which of course I'm assuming.
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The message from "Dave Plowman (News)" contains these words:
But a faulty earth (which happen fairly often, I suspect) would leave you very vulnerable.
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As it would on anything not normally RCD fed. Like cookers. Washing machines. Etc. However, if the rail is in a certain part of the bathroom it would need supplementary bonding anyway.
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On Sat, 25 Nov 2006 13:50:56 GMT someone who may be Guy King wrote this:-
Having read the rest of this sub-thread, the question is, "so what?" An earth fault that develops on its own isn't that common and of it was installed properly there will be supplementary bonding.
The supplementary point is that not all ring mains have RCDs.