Geyser not on earth leakage

[Leecatt]

Only when in zone 1 or 2 as covered by Lee.



However I disagree with Lee on his interpretation with this one:


I suggest this last line is only included to prevent confusing stove couplers with other forms of socket outlets that must be on earth leakage unit protection, and not to imply that all other forms of stove connections must be on earth leakage unit protection. If that was the intention, I suggest the framing of the stove section would have been "a stove must be on ELU except where it's connected via a stove coupler".

Hi Dave, yes O agree with you. I have read further now and the following passage has clarified it:

6.16.3.2.3 A cooking appliance circuit may also supply one socket-outlet if
the rating of the socket-outlet does not exceed 16 A and if the following are
all contained in one control unit (see also 6.15.4.1): Amdt 5
a) the socket-outlet;
b) an earth leakage protection device including overcurrent protection for
protecting the socket-outlet; and
c) the switch-disconnector required for the cooking appliance (see
6.16.1).
NOTE The socket-outlet has to be protected against earth leakage so, unless the
protection device (see (b) above) is in the control unit, the entire cooking appliance
circuit has to be protected against earth leakage.

Sometimes its about what the SANS doesn't say rather than what it does say.