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Seperate spurs for boiler and underfloor heating.

hertzal123
The customer asked for 2 spurs  in the boiler cupboard for the above.The uf heating engineer now wants to fire the combi boiler via voltage free contacts from his room stat and controls.

My thoughts are there should be 1 spur for both boiler and ufh.Or there could be signage to isolate both supplies before working .Any Thoughts?

                                                                                                                                                                                                                              Regards,Hz
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    kfh:

    All the dictionaries I look in refer to bulbs as the bright bit and lamps as the bits that hold the bright bit. So I am a bulb man. 




    No, the lamp is the bright bit, and the lamp-holder is the bit what holds the lamp.


    Bulbs are to be found in gardens and fields.


    In fairness, a bulb came to mean anything which looked like a bulb, for example that of a thermometer, hence an electric lamp bulb.

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    What do you get if you ask for an 'unfused spur', then?
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    geoffsd:

    What do you get if you ask for an 'unfused spur', then?  




    A switch or a connection plate.


    Andy B

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    geoffsd:

    What do you get if you ask for an 'unfused spur', then?  




    Not really a something you would ask for if you call them spurs. Having worked on both sides of the trade counter I always knew them as spurs, and if anyone asked me for a Connection Unit I wouldn't have a clue what they meant. I found alot of these differences were regional

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    I like the above suggestion that the accessory was originally called a 'Fused Spur Outlet".


    So using 'Spur' for this accessory is just an inappropriate abbreviation of which there are innumerable others like 'a radio' or 'an MoT'.

    Does anyone ask for a 'Flex' when wanting to buy a 'Flex Outlet (Plate or Connector)'?  No?


    Unfortunately 'spur' has another meaning in electrical work as defined in BS7671 Part 2.
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    geoffsd:

    I like the above suggestion that the accessory was originally called a 'Fused Spur Outlet".


    So using 'Spur' for this accessory is just an inappropriate abbreviation of which there are innumerable others like 'a radio' or 'an MoT'.

    Does anyone ask for a 'Flex' when wanting to buy a 'Flex Outlet (Plate or Connector)'?  No?


    Unfortunately 'spur' has another meaning in electrical work as defined in BS7671 Part 2. 




    No one asks for a "spur" either. It would be Switched Fused Spur or Unswitched Fused Spur

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    Dbat:



    No one asks for a "spur" either. It would be Switched Fused Spur or Unswitched Fused Spur


     



    The thread title and person in the OP would appear to indicate otherwise.

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