RCD wins again

[Mike Tomlinson]

En el artículo , Andy Burns escribió:

Ooh, lovely. Added to the collection. Ta. :)

[Bob Eager]

A friend gave me a socket strip recently that he discovered gently charring at a friend's house. What's interesting is that there is no noticeable damage to the contacts on the L pin. It looks as if it's burned from the outside in. I have no knowledge of the state of the plug, but I would guess a similar fault. You can see the burning along the line of the fuse (perhaps it was a bolt!)

[MrCheerful]

Both leads were identical. It was the only load on the circuit with a 32 amp mcb. I don't believe that the sound equipment on the 32amp plug actually needed anything like that current. As it was just for the one evening and nothing got hot, I do not believe it represented any danger, worst way the rcd, mcb or the fuses would blow one after the other.

[damduck-egg]

Yes that happens when work gets outsourced but it is not quite the same as you were an electrician and knew what you were doing, I was more alluding to the situation that say a lamp went in a changing room ,the artiste has a moan then the girl in the ticket booth mentions it to old George who should be on the door in his red coat but knows where the bulbs are kept and changes it , but unwittingly has put a

100w in a 60w max fitting cause his eyesight has gone and the place burns down 20 mins after curtain up. Of course out sourcing can actually encourage such things if people have to wait too long so there has to be a balance.

G.Harman

[spuorgelgoog]

That's a snack.

*This* is a breakfast

Owain

[Cursitor Doom]

That rocket (if that's what it is) deffo looks poncy. It'll be guacamole next. Someone needs to have a word in his shell-like.

[Cursitor Doom]

If it had been done right it should have been fine. 2kW is only just over

8A so well within the plug's capacity.

[Graham.]

It probably didn't occur to them that an applience was causing the "switch" in the "fusebox" not to stay up.

[Cursitor Doom]

There was a notorious case back in the 70s of a Saudi prince who ended up destroying the engine of his Silver Shadow due to this. He was under the impression that Rolls-Royce cars were so advanced they didn't need any servicing. He was of course wrong. And it wasn't covered under the warranty. Fortunately.

[Tim Watts]

OK - ready Uncle Bob :)

[Tim Watts]

You're lucky - all my tyres need a bit of a blow up, perhaps every 2-3 months.

[Mike Tomlinson]

En el artículo , Tim Watts escribió:

It's the parallel universe he inhabits. Contradicts all the laws of Earth physics.

[Mike Tomlinson]

En el artículo , Bob Eager escribió:

judging by the orange stuff, it's suffered from a spill of something.

[The Natural Philosopher]

As a little Marconi apprentice, we got ALL the scuttlebutt about radar and weapons system shipped to oil nations.

Ir was generally held that the Arab nations were the absolute worst, because although they didn't know what they were doing, unlike Africans, who accepted they didnt and could be taught to follow basic rules, the Arabs considered that they were not stupid therefore they knew how it all worked without reading a manual.

Of course today we are muvch more knowledgeable about Islamic cultuire, and we realise that this was in fact because Islam teaches them that they are superior, and everyone else is there to be enslaved or killed, or if they cant do that... grudgingly traded with...until they can.

[The Natural Philosopher]

Well I haven't pumped mine up in two years and they are fine

They will get pumped up when I put a new set on next year

So you are just posting another gratuitous insult, because you have nothing else to contribute.

[The Natural Philosopher]

VH? If you mean VW combi, air cooled engines always do, because teh cant control precise temperatures.

I did say 'today' meaning 'engines made today' not 'engines made in 1940'

Skoda are VW as well.

[The Natural Philosopher]

Another gratuitous insult.

You know what I mean 'wont need topping up between services'.

I've not topped a car up between services since...lord I cant remember. Got to be at least the 1980s...

[The Natural Philosopher]

Horrendous. I would sell a car that bad.

Or get the engine rebuilt properly.

[ARW]

No, it's a Vauxhall Combo.

If it was a VW Kombi I would have said VW Kombi.

[Andy Burns]

Doing about 20,000 miles a year my last two cars (2.2 and 3.0 diesels) have always needed a top-up of maybe 0.5 litre between services (24 months/19,000 mile interval).