6 minutes ago, PeterJames said:

I could never understand why we had to have stand by power for so long in the new EU standards

 

Some EU countries have much less reliable power grids than our own, so i think they're just covering worst case scenario

24 minutes ago, mark auto QA said:

Some EU countries have much less reliable power grids than our own, so i think they're just covering worst case scenario

I knew that, but why did the BS version need it was what I meant 

4737 was 8hrs which is more than ample for the UK. 24 hours would be a catastrophic or rare failure for the UK grid. Why would we have any standards that asked us to cope with problems other countries experience?

PD6662 states the same 12hours for grade 1 and 2, but reduces grade 3 and 4 to 24hrs (from 60 in 50131), like i said i was always told the EN requirements were to cover countries with unreliable power grids, ours doesnt need so long

 

personally i dont think 8 hours is long enough, 12 is much better

Edited July 4, 20169 yr by mark auto QA

Just now, mark auto QA said:

PD6662 states the same 12hours for grade 1 and 2, but reduces grade 3 and 4 to 24hrs (from 60 in 50131), like i said i was always told the EN requirements were to cover countries with unreliable power grids, ours doesnt need so long

Just to clarify, 12 hours IF monitored for mains failure Otherwise 24hour.

Peter James asked for "exactly wrong" which isn't a simple question. were dancing around here but already a few simple examples show the **** forced upon the UK by non sovereign power. FORCING the UK to change the way we want to do things.

4 minutes ago, alarmcom said:

Just to clarify, 12 hours IF monitored for mains failure Otherwise 24hour.

my mistake, we monitor mains fail as standard really so i often forget thats a condition of reducing the standby time

1 minute ago, alarmcom said:

Peter James asked for "exactly wrong" which isn't a simple question. were dancing around here but already a few simple examples show the **** forced upon the UK by non sovereign power. FORCING the UK to change the way we want to do things.

Are you Nigel Farage? 

7 hours ago, alarmcom said:

Peter James asked for "exactly wrong" which isn't a simple question. were dancing around here but already a few simple examples show the **** forced upon the UK by non sovereign power. FORCING the UK to change the way we want to do things.

If it were forced upon us from someone you voted for you would be happier??

8 hours ago, PeterJames said:

There has to be rules otherwise you have anarchy and everyone just installs what they feel like and how they feel like doing it.

Sound familiar?

http://www.fia.uk.com/news/fia-statement-on-the-outcome-of-the-eu-referendum-.html