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[radweld]

I don't think it really helps to make the 'instructions' any less incomprehesible, but no-one seems to have observed that this abomination is presumably directed at US readers - so maybe AC/DC converting jump boxes haven't yet got across the Atlantic

Kind Regards, John.

Do they have ring circuits in the US? (Radial circuits, or ring circuits, are a chain of interconnected circuits with separate conductors, in case you were wondering)

Edit: Paul_C beat me to it and commented more thoroughly on the angloisms in the article. Although the writer does americanise millimetre.

 

[Paul_C]

Do they have ring circuits in the US?

Not in standard domestic wiring. Nor in general commercial installations for that matter.

(Radial circuits, or ring circuits, are a chain of interconnected circuits with separate conductors, in case you were wondering)

I'm still trying to work out what that's even supposed to mean.

 

[EFLImpudence]

Perhips it will have been writing by a nice Chinese person who too will being doing the writing the directions in a heap of modern appliances to the kitchen please.

 

[sparkticus]

Well I still think Cockburn is behind it

 

[JohnW2]

I don't think so. The mention of the maximum number of spurs being one per socket (presumably with reference to the number of sockets on a ring) would not make sense in North America.

Fair enough. Maybe I was influenced by the fact that an awful lot on that site is clearly US-orientated (and many written by people identified as from US).

Kind Regards, John.

 

[ban-all-sheds]

I don't think so. The mention of the maximum number of spurs being one per socket (presumably with reference to the number of sockets on a ring) would not make sense in North America. And the cable sizes given are metric, even though you might be searching for 2 sq. mm. T&E for a while!

The site is clearly aimed at US readers- there's an overwhelming number of articles which are US-centric.

Probably what's happened is that Joe McIndoe is such an idiot he didn't even notice.

 

[ban-all-sheds]

"If you are engaged in a serious home remodel or renovation, you can expect to become familiar with welding."

 

[Paul_C]

Fair enough. Maybe I was influenced by the fact that an awful lot on that site is clearly US-orientated (and many written by people identified as from US).

And some of those are of the same sort of standard!

http://www.ehow.com/video_4908448_three_phase-house-wiring.html

 

[ban-all-sheds]

 

[Stoday]

They've nicked our 13A BS1363 plug to use as a 3-wire armored connector! Erm — Or I think they have. Difficult to translate from the Yankish.

http://www.ehow.com/how_8593676_connect-wire-grounded-armored-connector.html

 

[bernardgreen]

The Americans get it wrong far too often

The astronauts that landed on the moon were rather surprised to have landed there........they had booked for a flight to Chicago......

For the best American news try this site

http://www.theonion.com/articles/all-flights-grounded-after-faa-officials-suddenly,21014/

 

[Paul_C]

They've nicked our 13A BS1363 plug to use as a 3-wire armored connector!

I've noticed several other pages where the photograph seems to bear absolutely no relationship to the caption below it, or to the article in general, other than being of "something electrical." I have a suspicion that whoever puts some of those pages together has no idea about the content and just selects a picture at random!

But that's another article which fails on far more than just the confusing photograph. 2887-BOX is a Cooper part number, which seems an odd thing to quote specifically in the title when the wiring description is generic to any similar connector. Moreover though, the description is talking about wiring a 3-pole 4-wire connector for 240V, but the Cooper connector referred to is a 2-pole 3-wire type for 120V!

http://www.hardwareandtools.com/Coo...-Wire-Grounded-Armored-Connector-4352878.html

 

[OwainDIYer]

The purpose of most of these sites is not to tell people how to do things, it's to draw people to the adverts.

And to satisfy the creative urges of people who can't cope with mediawiki markup.