Does an electric oven require an isolation switch?

[OnlyMe]

Omnipolar cut-off switch, indeed!

That omni is misspelt Latin.

[ericmark]

I find regulations, guides to regulations, laws, and codes of practice all seem to get muddled up together. With BS7671 there have been changes with distances between sink and socket dropped and likely all the others also have had changes. As far I am aware the BS7671 only worries about rotating machines and heating appliances are not covered. Where people say it's against the regulations and you ask what regulation often they can't tell you. We have been told some where but without the knowing where really no good.

[OnlyMe]

With BS7671 there have been changes with distances between sink and socket dropped and likely all the others also have had changes.

Did BS7671 ever give a defined minimum distance between a (kitchen) sink and a socket? I can only ever recall "best practice guides" giving such distances.

[John MacLeod]

Omnipolar cut-off switch, indeed!

That omni is misspelt Latin.

Misspelt? Or even mis-spelled? Of course "omni" is Latin. It's a third-declension adjective so the dative and ablative singular in all three genders is "omni"

For those who have done more useful things with their lives than learn their Latin declensions, it simply means "all"!