is it legal for a UK 13A mains plug to _not_ have a fuse? dodgy camera battery charger?

[Jon Fairbairn]

[Nick Odell]

it into raw mains electricity coming through polluted copper cables. I say rip out your house wiring and replace it all the way back to the substation with gold plated oxygen free silver.

Nick

[The Other Mike]

[Nick Leverton]

Nah, you don't want other people's dirty electricity getting into your circuits off those transformers. Only way is to install your own micro generation facility.

A couple of pounds of *really* *pure* U235 should generate enough output for the most powerul and sensitive of hifi systems ...

t'other Nick

[The Other Mike]

No need to do that anymore, Russ Andrews has come the rescue of the totally deranged hifi consumer demanding 'better sound quality' at any cost.

[Andy Dingley]

I'd be a lot more convinced of their veracity if they could actually spell the word.

Thanks for that, the whole page is a delight to read - especially the fuses.

What do these people ever listen to? Direct-cut acetates of Elf-song, recorded live at Rivendell?

I've got a new microphone on my desk at the moment - large diameter condenser vocal mic. Banged out by a factory in China (I was at Uni with the Singaporean EE student who now runs the place) for just under a hundred, UK RRP and a right good bargain. Especially when the same mic goes out the other door at the same factory, in a different box and with a different shock mount for =A3350

[Grimly Curmudgeon]

We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. I remember David Robinson saying something like:

Yep, I bought a HK-made *but UK-supplied* light box a couple of years ago with the identical plug on it.

Quite illegal, afaik, and bloody dangerous, imo.

[dennis]

What's the point? The transformers don't use OFC and they run hot and emit thermal noise (like valves do).

What you need to invest in is micro generation so you can control what's in the circuit.

£12k for some solar PV, £10k for a gas powered sterling engine, some batteries, etc is all that's needed to make a nice power supply for your HiFi system. Opps sorry they are the trade prices, retail +1000%.

[Grimly Curmudgeon]

We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. I remember The Night Tripper saying something like:

Only if it was turned out of high-purity iternium and cossetted between a maiden's thighs during transport, to preserve the vibration wunderfim of the molescular matrix, thus ensuring the ultimate quound sality.

[dennis]

the loonies.

[airsmoothed]

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Would it even be legal to install that cable, doesn't it need to be BS6004 or whatever?

[tony sayer]

If the noise is low enough which it often isn't with those ones..

Name names then Andy if you will!...

[Nick Leverton]

Does it come with the maiden attached ?

Nick

[Grimly Curmudgeon]

We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. I remember Nick Leverton saying something like:

At that price? Certainly.

[Andy Champ]

Ignoring the price and the BS - what kind of hi-fi needs a 13A fuse?

Andy

[Adam Funk]

only for 10 guilders

[Andy Wade]

carried away and turn the volume up too high - a snip at 35 quid each...

[Dave Liquorice]

It's only 3kW. With decent 5.1 system that is only 500W RMS per channel input. The sub may well want more so even less for the other

5 channels...

[Grimly Curmudgeon]

We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. I remember Andy Dingley saying something like:

Huh. My local hardware store stocks a range of shit-made lampholders that fall apart with the heat of a 60W bulb. Guess where they're made. Annoying thing is, they're a direct copy of a well-established UK make and I thought I was buying something half-decent.

[Bob Eager]

ISTR a discussion here a while ago re MK items. The ones sold by B&Q are apparently manufactured to a lower spec..