amphead wrote:
... What if the facility engineer hadn’t given me the opportunity to compare the fuses and used the cheaper ones. Would the standard disclaimer have kept me out of trouble if an incident were to occur? What if the facility engineer contracted this out and the EC “value engineered” the project? Would the facility engineer still be liable?
My reports are always full of disclaimers saying the results are only valid if the conditions on which they are based are unchanged. I believe you would have a defensible position, if the substituition happened outside of your control.
The 'value engineering' part of this is one reason, I tend to shy away from fuses when they are likely to be 'replaced' in the future, like those 400A and smaller. It is amazing how many people think all fuses, in a class, are identical in performance.