Date   : Fri, 04 Sep 2009 20:22:40 +0100
From   : andrew.hancock@... (Andrew Hancock)
Subject: [OT] RE: Leccy @ Acorn World '09

> 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?

Five - Six outages every summer, with the electrical storms in this area.

> 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.

Everything in the kitchen is OFF the cooker socket! (don't ask I bought the
house life this!)

Andrew