Date   : Fri, 04 Sep 2009 18:40:08 +0100
From   : rs423@... (Mick Champion)
Subject: [OT] RE: Leccy @ Acorn World '09

Andrew Hancock wrote:
>> I don't think it's a MCB or RCD, it's a Wylex circuit breaker, just a posh
>> fuse
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>> see picture
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>> http://andysworld.org.uk/house/images/fusebox.jpg
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>> Andrew
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> what I meant to say was it's not an RCD, but it is a MCB!
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> so maybe it's just over-current, that's causing it to trip! (or maybe it's
> knackered!)
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> good job it's not fuse wire, I'd be replacing the wire all the time, but
> then a wire may take longer to burn through!
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I doubt it would blow a piece of fuse wire. Well not every time anyway, 
though it may weaken eventually. When the old filament bulbs blew, they 
rarely took a fuse with them did they, but with  MCBs is seems to be 
every every time! You must get a lot of power outages to make you think 
of changing your breaker?


Have you got a cooker socket with an on-board 13 amp socket ? If you 
have, and it's practical to plug your fridge freezer into it, that may 
help. It will be on it's own 45amp? MCB with any cooker and separate 
from your ring main.


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