kitchen wiring

[charles]

If the socket is not working when the neon is on then there could be a broken wire between the neon (on the switch) and the socket.

[Adam Funk]

And my toaster's only 1.8 kW.

[Andy Champ]

It's in "Looking for solution for delayed start of Tumble Dryer".

Andy

[Fred]

Yes, I almost wish I hadn't said it now ;)

Here's my best attempt at getting out of the hole I have dug for myself:

My oven switch has a neon light but I cannot see the point of having a neon when I can tell that the oven drawing power because its clock is on. Similarly my washing machine and dishwasher have displays.

So I was thinking neons would be more useful when the appliance was remote from the switch but I suppose I was thinking that just because there is a neon glowing, doesn't mean that the device at the other end of the wire is working. It might be something as daft as the freezer in the garage has been unplugged to use the socket for the lawnmower, or the freezer could be plugged in but have broken down and thawed out, sot he neon can not be relied upon as an indicator of the appliance working.

To give a real-life example: at my old house, the immersion heater switch had a neon and the neon was still alight even though the heater had failed.

But I realise that these are outside the kitchen setting of the OP. The only thing there would be if one of the wires was not screwed into the socket or the switch properly, which I realise would be rare.

I was thinking that in the event of a fault I would check the socket first but now that I think about it, like you say, it is unlikely the socket wiring would have failed, so I was probably making unnecessary work for myself! if I have to do this for real, I will have more confidence in the socket now and miss that step out.

[Fred]

I even posted in that! How embarrassing! I don't remember a dishwasher catching fire though; I thought it was about tumble dryers catching fire?