I'm too young to have had to do it, but glad I never had to rewire a fuse in the dark!
Don't you keep candles and matches beside your fusebox?
I'm too young to have had to do it, but glad I never had to rewire a fuse in the dark!
I'm plenty old enough, but soon decided that the sensible course was to keep a spare, already wired, 5A fuse on top of the CU!I find that a lot of everyday users have already clocked onto that, either that they got sick of having to go and find fusewire ... I'm too young to have had to do it, but glad I never had to rewire a fuse in the dark!
You haven't lived [the difference between clear and pearl was obviously irrelevant]. Particularly when lighting circuits were heavily loaded with incandescent bulbs/lamps, it was pretty common for one of them dying to take out a B6 MCB - at least, IME.I didn't think old pearl lamps caused fuse wire to blow. I have never known it.
Nope. Non maintained emergency fitting! Kinda redundant with RCBOs though, they basically never goI'm too young to have had to do it, but glad I never had to rewire a fuse in the dark!
Don't you keep candles and matches beside your fusebox?
You haven't lived [the difference between clear and pearl was obviously irrelevant]. Particularly when lighting circuits were heavily loaded with incandescent bulbs/lamps, it was pretty common for one of them dying to take out a B6 MCB - at least, IME.I didn't think old pearl lamps caused fuse wire to blow. I have never known it.
Kind Regards, John
Oh, I misread what Andy wrote . Yes, I agree with you both that dying lamps 'never' (at least, IME) blew a fuse. That makes sense, and I wouldn't expect a dying lamp to ever trip the thermal part of an MCB (which is roughly equivalent to a fuse), either, since the very high current that can flow during the death throes of an incandescent bulb/lamp is of such very short duration. However, those large currents clearly do often flow for long enough to trip the magnetic part of an MCB.Agreed with mcb's , but as andy says, I have never known them too take fuses out.
That's true, but the screws appeared to be quite adequate (no smaller than those used in many of the accessories connected to the final circuits concerned) and the redundancy of having two clearly reduced the chances of problems due to 'loose connections'.Even though they had 2 screws, the screws were quite small compared with the big one screw on the newer boards.
IIRC, all the one's I've dealt with had dual neutral screws (in a really solid 'neutral block').Im sure, early versions had two neutral screws as well.
I don't recall having personally experienced that - at least, to any significant extent.The heads on the neutral ones often snapped off IME.
and the redundancy of having two clearly reduced the chances of problems due to 'loose connections'.
Unusual perhaps, but I've had it happen once or twice.dying lamps 'never' (at least, IME) blew a fuse
I think it's essentially 'you' What I meant was that having dual screws "reduced the chances of problems of 'loose connections' ".Is it me or should that be "increased"and the redundancy of having two clearly reduced the chances of problems due to 'loose connections'.
That is not quite the sense in which the word "redundancy" is used in engineering and related contexts. Yes, "excessive and superfluous" under normal (fault-free) service conditions but providing valuable "belt and braces" protection in the presence of faults. I doubt that you would regard it as "superfluous" to have 'redundancy" of flight control systems and instrumentation in an aircraft you were about to boardEdit. ... Redundancy ... 2. Something redundant or excessive; a superfluity. My apologies
It's obviously not impossible, but I cannot recall having ever personally experienced it.Unusual perhaps, but I've had it happen once or twice.dying lamps 'never' (at least, IME) blew a fuse
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