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At least the picture's filename confirms what the object is. :wink:

So you get up to open the curtains to give you light to wake up and then close the window to shut-out the bird-song so you can get back to sleep. :)

I don't recall saying that I suffered from Seasonal Affected Disorder - I just like the slowly increasing brightness of the lamp combined with the increasingly loud alarm to wake me up in the morning. Also, the gradual dimming at night and the bedside dimmer switch is quite useful.

Presumably that means I'll need to stock up with plenty of bulbs to continue to use this: Sunrise System The manual states: * Use ONLY regular tungsten light/lamp bulbs in the lamp connected to the Sunrise System. * Do NOT use power saving bulbs or non standard bulbs in the lamp when...

I do a bit of tent camping and don't use electrical hook-ups as I prefer to keep things simple using gas for cooking and a quality coolbox for chilling a few bits of food for a couple of days. I seem to be in the minority as I've noticed a recent increase in other tent campers having a vast...

Bearing this in mind, the answer would seem to be to firstly use a digital multimeter to check that the neon screwdriver impedance is high and then use the neon screwdriver to check for voltage on the phase under test. :wink: :lol:

This is the only place I've seen: http://www.moss-catalogue.co.uk/search.php?xSearch=2A+fused+plug

The sockets are shuttered MK ones so that's okay. The only place I've found selling the MK 2A fused plugs (639WHI) is charging over £7 each. :o Anyone know of a cheaper source?

Thanks for the replies. Sureitsoff, I didn't realise that 2A fused plugs were available. Thanks for enlightening me - I'll be getting hold of some of these. :D

The master bedroom in my house has a 3-pin 2A socket on either side of the bed to allow table lamps to be plugged-in. Each is switched from a standard wall light switch and seems to be supplied from the upstairs lighting circuit. As 2A plugs do not have fuses, should each 2A socket be fed from...