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Q Residential and Other Special Locations
Q Residential and Other Special Locations
Contents
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Residential and similar premises Q2
1.1 General Q2
1.2 Distribution boards components Q2
1.3 Protection of people Q4
1.4 Circuits Q6
1.5 Protection against overvoltages and lightning Q7
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Bathrooms and showers
2.1 Classification of zones
2.2 Equipotential bonding
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Q8
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2.3 Requirements prescribed for each zone Q11
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Recommendations applicable to special installations
and locations
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Enclosure
Service connection
Distribution board
Incoming-supply
circuit breaker
Lightning protection
Combi surge arrester
Overcurrent
protection
and isolation MCB phase and neutral
Protection against
Q direct and indirect
contact,
and protection
against fire
Differential Differential load
MCB switch
Remote control
Remote control switch
TL 16 A
Energy management
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On installations which are TN earthed, the supply utilities usually protect the
installation simply by means of sealed fuse cut-outs immediately upstream of the
meter(s) (see Fig. Q2). The consumer has no access to these fuses.
Meter
300 mA
30 mA 30 mA
differential relay
This type of CB affords protection against fault to earth, but by virtue of a short time
delay, provides a measure of discrimination with downstream instantaneous RCDs.
Tripping of the incoming supply CB and its consequences (on deep freezers, for
example) is thereby made less probable in the event of lightning, or other causes of
voltage surges. The discharge of voltage surge current to earth, through the surge
arrester, will leave the type S circuit-breaker unaffected.
300 mA - type S
30 mA 30 mA 30 mA
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Diverse High-risk location Socket- Bathroom and/or
circuits (laundry room) outlet shower room
circuit
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Fig. Q6 : Installation with incoming-supply circuit-breaker having short time delay differential
protection, type S
Fig. Q8 : Circuit division according to utilization Fig Q9 : Recommended minimum number of lighting and power points in residential premises
Individual-load circuits
Water heater 2.5 mm2 4,600 W Circuit-breaker 25 A
(4 mm2) Fuse 20 A
(1) In a 230/400 V 3-phase circuit, the c. s. a. is 4 mm2 for copper or 6 mm2 for aluminium, and protection is provided by a 32 A
circuit-breaker or by 25 A fuses.
Fig. Q11 : C. s. a. of conductors and current rating of the protective devices in residential installations (the c. s. a. of aluminium conductors are shown in brackets)
Installation rules
Three principal rules must be respected:
1 - It is imperative that the three lengths of cable used for the installation of the surge
arrester each be less than 50 cm i.e.: Q
b the live conductors connected to the isolating switch
b from the isolating switch to the surge arrester
b from the surge arrester to the main distribution board (MDB) earth bar (not
to be confused with the main protective-earth (PE) conductor or the main earth
terminal for the installation.The MDB earth bar must evidently be located in the
same cabinet as the surge arrester.
2 - It is necessary to use an isolating switch of a type recommended by the
manufacturer of the surge arrester.
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Bathrooms and showers rooms are areas of high risk, because of the very low
resistance of the human body when wet or immersed in water.
Precaution to be taken are therefore correspondingly rigorous, and the regulations
are more severe than those for most other locations.
The relevant standard is IEC 60364-7-701.
Precautions to observe are based on three aspects:
b The definition of zones, numbered 0,1, 2, 3 in which the placement (or exclusion)
of any electrical device is strictly limited or forbidden and, where permitted, the
electrical and mechanical protection is prescribed
b The establishment of an equipotential bond between all exposed and extraneous
metal parts in the zones concerned
b The strict adherence to the requirements prescribed for each particular zones, as
tabled in clause 3
Zone 1* Zone 1*
Zone 2 Zone 3
Zone 2 Zone 3
Zone 0 Zone 0
0.60 m 2.40 m
2.40 m
0.60 m
2.25 m
Zone 1
Zone 0
0.60 m 2.40 m
Zone 0 Zone 0
Zone 1 Zone 2 Zone 3 Zone 1 Zone 2 Zone 3
2.25 m
Zone 1
Zone 0
0.60 m 2.40 m
2.40 m 2.40 m
Zone 3 Zone 3
2.25 m
(1) When the shower head is at the end of a flexible tube, the vertical central axis of
a zone passes through the fixed end of the flexible tube
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0.60 m
Prefabricated
shower
cabinet
0.60 m
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Fig. Q15 : No switch or socket-outlet is permitted within 60 cm of the door opening of a shower
cabinet
Classes Classes
of external of external
influences influences
AD 3 AD 3
BB 2 Zone 3 BB 2
BC 3 BC 3
Dressing cubicles (zone 2)
AD 3 AD 3
BB 3
WC BB 2
BC 3 BC 3
AD 7
BB 3
BC 3
Shower cabinets (zone 1)
Classes Classes
of external of external
influences influences
AD 7 Zone 1 AD 3
BB 3 WC BB 2
BC 3 BC 3
Classes Classes
of external of external
influences influences
h < 1.10m
AD 3 Dressing room AD 5
BB 2 1.10m < h < 2.25m
BC 3 Zone 2
AD 3
BB 3
BC 3
h < 1.10m
AD 5 AD 7
1.10m < h < 2.25m BB 3
AD 3 Zone 2 Zone 1 BC 3
BB 3
BC 3
To the earth
electrode Metallic pipes
hi 2m
Water-drainage
piping
Gaz
Socket-outlet
Radiator
Lighting
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Figure Q20 below summarizes the main requirements prescribed in many national
and international standards.
Note: Section in brackets refer to sections of IEC 60364-7
equipotential bonding
Fig. Q20 : Main requirements prescribed in many national and international standards (continued on opposite page)
Fig. Q20 : Main requirements prescribed in many national and international standards (concluded)
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