Milk and bread, LOL these parts and the freedom to use them are gone in the UK. Unless you can prove you are qualified to use them then you are ****** .
Huh? What on earth are you talking about?
Sorry its a bit of a rant which was in my head and not very well expressed.
I was quoting a post before about just being able to go out and get parts like a quick nip to the shops for milk and bread.
as if its just an everyday thing in Japan to use electronic parts in the home.
The bit about not being able to use stuff is because in the UK now, in the home as "Part P of the building regulations" is so strict, that you can not even install an led light in your home yourself if its a new circuit. Anything that requires more the 0.3 Volts I think without getting planning permission and a test by a "Competent Person" that means someone who is accredited by a body like the NICEIC etc. Even running a network cat 5 cable is illegal for me to do without permission now. Model railway people are not allowed technically to install fixed model lights to a garden railway if over 0.3 volts, they could be a professor of electrical engineering but would not be deemed capable without accreditation from an approved body.
Even an electrician who works for an accredited company during the day is not allowed to do his own work, even wire his own house without getting planning permission and an inspection by an accredited person, the work has to be approved by the local building inspector before work starts.
Very competent people are being forced to pay money just to do what they are capable of doing and have worked an Apprenticeship and many years in industry are now unable to do the simplest of home electrics.
without permission. Thats what a bit of the mad rant was about.
Apologies to everyone for the disjointed post.
One Electrician in Bristol UK was refused his NICEIC approval and membership because he had not done any new build house wiring although a competent electrician who had been doing small works and repairs for years. Thats the jist of it, it a while since I read about it now.
I know one electrician who told me that a young trainee from the planning dept asked one of his firms Electricians if he had all the qualifications to do the job who had been a professional electrician for 30 plus years and said he was not sure if he should be doing the work he was doing. When asked what qualifications he had the young man from the local building /planning dept said he had no qualifications but was a trainee, yet he wanted the man to stop work. This is a man with years of practical knowledge and a time served apprentice ship behind him. I know that the rule have been tightened to stop bad practice, but in most cases its the amateur who will take no notice of the regulations and do bad work, while the good pro people have to pay for accreditation at no small cost.
Apologies for the long post, I've not looked at any new rules for a while and I may be wrong with the exact details that apply now in the UK but I'm reasonably sure that its mostly as I say.
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