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You can have RCDs that are either Latching or Non Latching too on portable appliances so that can make a difference if your supply is switched off. In most circumstances you need an RCD to latch to on if it is switched by a timer, providing it is safe to restart (it would not be safe for a...

I do not like "A minimum of 2 or 3" or "A Maximum of 9 or 10" etc etc what the heck is all that about?

Is it Chint ?

Yes but were they actually producing steam or merely water vapour I`m sure most folk would want to know?

Hidden cables should be run horizontally or vertically in line with the extremeties of the accessory or back box (if surface type and is fractionally larger than the switch/socket etc. The larger the faceplate and/or the viewable back box the more area you have for cables choices when positioning

Hah Right, I remember 5A and 15A being common in my youth, and the porcelain"pepper pots" fuses as we called them, lots of folks electrics now looks like it belongs in an old horror film with Boris etc LOL Come to think of it I think that Flameport might have some such in his Dark Museum ...

Did not know a 10A Fuse existed or a 10A rated plug existed?

Well I think we all agree really then? A couple can mean two in some instances yet in other instances it can be intended to mean approx 2 or so in some contexts, we do not often say exactly two or approx 2 so it might be an indication of either by the user and by the listerner. No wonder we get...

Yes Agreed John, was my experience too, it was very common, it was at secondary school (and last year maybe last two years) in junior school when learnt to what was "proper" LOL

I must admit that I was brung up with the saying "Bulbs go in gardens and lamps go in lampholders" also plugs plug into a socket etc etc. An FCU is used (at either end) on a spur from a Ring Final or a Radial and could be Switched or Unswitched but you try telling folk that. A ring main is not...

Yes but lets say some says "Can I have a couple of sweets off you please?" and you have a bag say of at least 100 and you give them a couple they might well say "you have only given me two!" they were clearly hoping for 3 or 4 at least and possibly up to 10 say

It is an age old question - I am so old that I actually remember that it was common for the "better qualified Electricians and Electrical Engineers etc" To use the term Plugtop quite often. It was thought to be the industry standard. I suppose it was used to counter the hilarious situation of...

Do you mean Fused Connection Units? (FCU)

Is it a local thing Harry? I have no idea how where and when it came about! What about the word "Couple" it means two but how often is it spoken to mean "About Two" therefore perhaps 2 or 3 or 4 even? ;)

I suppose someone being nearly half his age could mean (in this case) half of 55 being 27.5 so the term "nearly" could be plus or minus some small amount , usually we might expect it to mean less than but who says that it can not mean more than?

Because the bakery would be able to sell their wares in Radians then - 2 Pi in a full circle

Good point there EFLI

That's just plain wrong ... half a pint is two gills, not one :-) Yes indeed but was very very common with folks of a certain age actually knew that - I could never understand it but maybe just a Lancashire thing but indeed was very common, meeself I only drank pints and I am old enough to...

"One of the most common potential problems arises in relation to percentage changes/differences if people use the wrong wording. To say that the price of gas has "increased TO 150% over the past X years" is obviously very different from "increased BY 150% over the past X years" " One of our...

Well, in practice, not much difference (unfortunately). so they often gets used interchangeably, which can be a bad thing sometimes because of tolerances it can put a undue strain on them - and that`s if they are made within their own spec which I suspect some are not quite either.