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Sorry but thats not a valid comparison, MCS is irrelevant here and anyway it misses the key point. Other perfectly respectable countries in the EU, ...
In fairness to @transparent he has already said he doesn't know about other countries and, unless he is advising government, there is no reason why he...
Ok all of this is very interesting but other EU countries seem to manage it. The risks are identical unless there are differences in fixed wiring de...
Does anyone put a bidirectional device other than on a generator circuit (and if so why?), or is it the more usual case of a regular rcbo that bothers...
When its cycled off mine sometimes seems to show a target flow temp that is less than the 'on' target. I have occasionally wondered why and speculat...
You cant expect Joe Public to know anything about the matters you mention. So the unit itself must protect a) Joe Public b) Grid workers c) the ...
Really? Do you think that would work in practice or would mcs just produce lots of stats to show how well they are doing resulting in lots of good wo...
In general terms programming a target temp shifts the WC curve which also features a 'minimum flow temperature' parameter. So will programming 5C tar...
My thoughts are that, so long as it can be made technically safe, it should be legal, not require planning permission and not require MCS. Basically ...
Without doing some horrendous modelling, or fabricating some transparent tanks, I would think that there is quite a significant risk that the upper se...
As you say it's meaningless babble. Fwiw I doubt we need mcs standards at all given part L of building regulations which, unlike mcs standards, are...
@cathoderay I think you may have misunderstood what I was getting at which perhaps I didn't make clear. Both @batpred and I touched, albeit very ...
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