Wiring woes

We too are having to consider which part of the certification process we want to remain in.

We also discovered that because we diligently took the City & Guilds 2380 16th edition course when it first appeared, we now have to take the full 17th edition at £750 per course, not the update course at around £175.

I thought the older you got, the wiser you became. My advice is to take the new courses in 18 months or so when they have settled down.

Also I note that the ECA is not offering any 17th edition courses in this locale (EMC September, page 11). Off to the NICEIC again.

On a secondary note, I read Bob Hall’s comments about the purchase of Elecsa (EMC September, pages 18-21). I know, as well as he does, that Elecsa was bought due to the complete lack of vision at the ECA.

In my role as the vice chairman of the ECA Southampton branch and my previous less formal positions, I, and many others, kept banging the table about Part P and the ECA’s role, or lack of it, and I was told by those who supposedly knew that I was talking rubbish.

Well there goes the ECA members’ money again. Oh by the way, that begs another question? Whose money is it in the ECA coffers? At both local and regional level I do not remember being asked about the purchase of Elecsa.