Safety Switch Testing - Electrician Brisbane

Alleviate the worry of an electrical shock for you, your family and especially young children.

Safety devices help protect us against things that may go wrong with electricity.

The installation of a safety switch is the most efficient way of protecting you and your household. A safety switch continuously monitors the power to each electrical device and "trips" within 40 milliseconds of detecting a fault.

Safety switches, like smoke alarms, need routine electronic testing and measuring. This is imperative to ensure the integrity of all your safety switches and the safety of your workplace.

A residual current device (RCD) or a residual current circuit breaker, commonly know as a safety switch is designed to isolate power when it detects an in-balance commonly of 30 mA (milliamps) between the active and neutral conductor. These in-balances are commonly caused by current leakage through earth. This leakage can be caused via a faulty appliance or through the body of a person accidentally touching an energized piece of equipment.

The disconnection or tripping of the RCD should happen within 4 milliseconds. If the RCD takes too long to trip the results could lead to a serious injury or fatality.

Safety switches are not a substitute for surge protectors, circuit breakers or fuses. A circuit breaker "trips" or a fuse blows when the circuit is overloaded (when too many appliances are being used or a short has occurred in the wiring or appliance). Many homes may have a circuit breaker, a safety switch should be installed by an electrician to provide increased family safety.

Safety switches are not a substitute for care and common sense. Nothing is 100% fail-safe. You should always treat electricity with respect and regularly test your safety switch to make sure it is operational. Just like a smoke detector, if it doesn't work, it can't save you.

Beltec Electrical can conduct regular and routine inspections of your RCDs to maintain a safe working environment for your employees or your home.

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