Date   : Tue, 08 Sep 2009 08:59:06 +0100
From   : rs423@... (Mick Champion)
Subject: [OT] RE: Leccy @ Acorn World '09

Andrew Hancock wrote:
>> 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.
>   
 Are in the UK? Sounds more like Florida :-)  I know lightening strikes 
do take out substations / hit overhead wires in the UK, but I'm sure 
you'd have to be darned unlucky to be personally effected 5 times in one 
summer. Nasty.


>   
>> 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!)
>   
The cooker breaker isn't the one that that trips though is it? I won't 
ask what cable connects to all your sockets in the kitchen from the 
cooker outlet, just in case you say 1.00 mm or something <eek>.


Mick.