What's new
What's new
Voltaula changes, newest first.
- v0.9
Work, manufacturer series and client appliances
The Work edition, client appliances, explanations, twelve device series and new devices.
- Voltaula Work: your workshop with training, attempts and projects, without groups or teachers.
- Client appliances with real power and protection class; unplug them and plug them back in.
- “Explain why”: a note in the log and on each fault in the report.
- Twelve wiring-device series (Niessen, Simon, Schneider, Legrand, BJC, Jung, Efapel) with frames from the same series; modular devices from Schneider, Legrand and ABB.
- New devices: dimmer, blind switch, motion sensor, doorbell, USB socket, staircase timer, in-box relay, thermostat, surge protector and EV charging.
- v0.8
Safety, faults and datasheets
Safety checks as on site, new hidden faults and products drawn from datasheets.
- Before working: prove the tester on a live point and measure L–N, L–PE and N–PE at the work point.
- The insulation tester also measures earth resistance; the RCD tester injects exactly the current you choose.
- New hidden faults: burnt contact, partly broken conductor, cable trapped in a box, neutral-to-earth fault, RCD that does not trip, appliance with leakage, and overload.
- Products from datasheets: Niessen Zenit devices, Hager Golf VS enclosures, KN10E terminal block, Solera boxes and Wago 221 connectors.
- One drawing style for tools, cursors and instruments.
- v0.7
Your own projects
Your flat or your board, with the design checked as you go.
- Projects: a flat floor plan or your own board; save, open and copy.
- Checks as you go: circuits per ITC-BT-25, design current and voltage drop to the farthest point.
- Power and electrification level, and every REBT remark.
- Light and dark theme.
- v0.6
Site work, inspection and panel design
Chases and holes, ferrules, bathroom zones, inspection tests and consumer unit design.
- Drill with a Ø68 hole saw, wall chaser and plaster: conduit only goes into an open chase, and an unfilled chase is a remark.
- Ferrules and crimping tool; conduit fill (ITC-BT-21) and bathroom zones (ITC-BT-27).
- Insulation tester, RCD tester and clamp meter; installation inspection with a test record.
- Consumer unit design on the floor plan: circuits, protection, cross-sections and enclosure, checked against ITC-BT-25.
- Spirit level: boxes, devices and enclosures go up by eye and are levelled.
- v0.5
Time, material and enclosure
Scenarios are adjustable: time, material and enclosure size.
- Working time against a standard; material limited from ×1 to ×2, handed out in pools so the choice is not given away.
- Surface enclosures from 1×8 to 3×12 and a 2×12 flush one: choosing the size counts too.
- Isolator and incoming terminals in a separate box above the consumer unit.
- v0.4
Flats with a floor plan and an old flat
A 60–90 m² new-build flat and an old flat with hidden faults.
- Floor plan with rooms, furniture, boxes, consumer unit and routes; open any box or the panel to work up close.
- Levels from 1 — the flat is finished and one socket is missing — to 3, the whole flat.
- Old flat: the client complains and the fault is found by measuring; the report shows which ones were fixed.
- Tasks: installation, lighting circuits and fault finding.
- v0.3
Workbench and real lengths
Material measured and cut by hand: every mistake costs material and time.
- Workbench: cut, strip, label and pull cables into conduit; installed conduit takes fewer cables and jams on bends.
- Length is measured with the tape between any two points; the spare at the ends follows the regulation.
- The cut is made exactly where you click, and both pieces stay in place.
- Every action takes time; a short cable means new material.
- v0.2
Tools in hand
Work as on site: a tool in your hand, an action menu and a multimeter.
- Action menu: what you hold and where you click; no hints about what to do.
- Isolator with a padlock at the supply; the incoming cables are real and always live.
- Multimeter: voltage, resistance and continuity, with probes on terminals and free ends; labels on cables.
- Devices drawn from real products; labels only if you turn them on with “Aa”.
- v0.1
Training board and circuit calculation
First version: training board, calculated circuit, REBT rules and report.
- Fitting the consumer unit and the points on the training board.
- The circuit is calculated: voltages, currents, breaker and RCD tripping, shocks when working live.
- Rules based on the REBT and its ITC-BT instructions; a report with a score and the severity of each fault.
- Interface in five languages and optional translation of technical terms.