Summary

Electricity is a basic and necessary commodity and serves as a basis for activity in the sectors of the economy and in every home in Israel. The IEC performs an inspection of the electrical installation before its first operation, after a fundamental change in the installation, in electrical cases and the like. The purpose of the tests is to verify the integrity of the facility and the safety of its user, to prevent a safety hazard, to provide reliable and regular electricity and to prevent interruptions to other customers who are fed from the network. Improper installation can be life threatening!

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The IEC's facility inspectors perform inspections in accordance with the Electricity Law and its regulations, the IEC's rules and procedures, criteria, laws and other regulations that affect the electrical facilities. Well-being, technological advancement and the rapid pace of changes and developments in the field of electricity and its products have led to larger, more complex and sophisticated electrical facilities, requiring smarter facility inspectors, with a high sense of service, extensive knowledge and rapid learning ability. In the recent past most home and commercial electrical installations were relatively simple, however today houses are larger and more complex, forcing the tester to test more circuits with a wide variety of electrical equipment such as air conditioners, underfloor heating systems, saunas, hot tubs and even their swimming pools More complex regulations and rules. The public electricity installation, which in the past included a single number of finite circuits, has become large and complex, especially in tall buildings and high-rise buildings. These facilities contain many electrical systems, with a unique cost that requires a special and different inspection process subject to regulations and rules, such as elevators, alternative supply generator, water pressure boosting pumps, orientation lighting, electrical rooms, essential board, protection against electricity and so on. Smart homes with many electrical and command systems.

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Recently thousands of houses and various electrical installations have become electricity producers using renewable energies and especially PV, the electrical installation has changed substantially, on the roofs of the houses were built mini-production stations, which combine DC electricity with AC electricity, have protection and synchronization systems that require different professional testing. High voltage connection tests in the absence of proper reference in the electrical regulations.

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The use of accurate and sophisticated test equipment and instruments, the launch of advanced reporting systems and test protocols, the manner in which test records are maintained, all require an orderly and uniform doctrine for all examiners, stemming from staff work combined with many years of field experience.

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The lesson from experience is the source of wisdom and wisdom is the ability to pass on the degree of wisdom stored between examiners, with the client at the forefront of our minds.

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In the presentation I will review some of these processes.