We had a guy doing some work today who turned off a fuse as they needed to move a cable and wanted to be safe. It's in an outhouse so only just realised it was still off, text them and they advised it was fine.
Big flash from the fuse on the consumer unit and now the switch won't go up at all, no 'click' to it. All other fuses are just fine.
This isn't mine but it's this style:
Which makes me think the fuse has 'gone' except I thought the whole point of these fuses was when they blew it just flipped the switch. How do they work? It's a unit from about 2000 I think.
Don't worry I'm not about to start tinkering, I'm just interested how they work.
Big flash from the fuse on the consumer unit and now the switch won't go up at all, no 'click' to it. All other fuses are just fine.
This isn't mine but it's this style:
Which makes me think the fuse has 'gone' except I thought the whole point of these fuses was when they blew it just flipped the switch. How do they work? It's a unit from about 2000 I think.
Don't worry I'm not about to start tinkering, I'm just interested how they work.