Jim Michaels wrote:
On Fri, 19 Dec 2008 08:49:15 +0000, Rod
wrote:

wrote:
Dave wrote:

Talking to my lunch time drinking companion, he mention that a fuse had
blown again and couldn't understand why.

It turns out that the house was built about 1958 and has only one fuse
for the sockets upstairs and downstairs. Was this common then and does
he have a ring or radial wiring?

There is a fuse for lights and another for the cooker.

Dave

A good approach to inadequate capacity wiring was to mark the curernt
consumption of the appliance in amps on each plug top. Then for the
end user its easy not to plug too much load in at once.


NT
Green acres is the place to be.
Farm living is the life for me.
Land spreading out, so far and wide.
Keep Manhattan, just give me that countryside.

For anyone too young to understand (at all), have a shufty here (though
it does not explain my comment):

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0058808/



The episode
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0592812/

The magic number was 7

Remove SPAMX from email address

Thank god - I thought I was mad. :-)

Funny how one single episode from all that time ago lodged in my brain -
and was there the moment I read NT's post. (I had searched IMDB but must
have not come up with the magic terms.)

--
Rod

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