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From: Grant Taylor <gtaylor@tnetconsulting.net>
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Subject: Re: British (european?) kitchen counter electric outlets
Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2024 22:26:44 -0500
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On 6/10/24 23:45, bud-- wrote:
> As I expect you figured out, Christmas lights have tiny wire and need 
> protection.

Christmas lights are just the only example that came to mind in the U.S.A.

I would personally prefer to have a 13A fuse on an extension cord 
plugged into a 15A outlet so that the fuse would blow close to where I'm 
using the cord instead of having to traipse through a building to the 
breaker panel.

> Probably somewhere in this thread, the UK you have 30-32A ring circuits 
> and current about half here with correspondingly small cord wire so you 
> need fuses in plugs.  One fuse?

I would think that you'd want to open the (both) hot(s).  Much like how 
you want a double poll breaker to open both hots on a 240 V domestic 
load in the U.S.A.

Blowing / opening one hot would still leave live power via the other hot 
in a dual hot cord.



-- 
Grant. . . .