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" writes:
The Hotpoint RFA70 blew a fuse today and tripped the breaker. I
changed to a new 13amp fuse and pushed nack the breaker, but still no

Is there power to the socket?
If so, it sounds like something else has blown in the fridge,
which is not unexpected given it passed enough current to blow
the fuse and breaker. (What was the breaker rating, out of interest?)

power to the fridge. Any suggestions?

I once had a 15W pigmy (oven) lamp blow. This blew the oven fuse
(13A) and the 32A MCB. I wasn't present when it went, but it had
clearly done so quite explosively. First problem was that it had
blown the glass cover cross-threaded, and there was no way it
would unscrew. I had to take the whole oven out and take the lamp
out from the back. When I got the cover off, the bulb was quite
spectacular. The bulb was all shattered, but completely held in
shape by the filament which had stretched and melted to the
inside of the bulb in hundreds of places. The springyness of the
filament was holding all the pieces together very well. You could
push on the bulb and deform it, but it sprung back to the right
shape.

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Andrew Gabriel
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