On Apr 15, 9:06*am, asalcedo wrote:

I have moved to Spain from the UK.

I have brought with me plenty of UK appliances.

All of them have the standard UK fused plug.

My house in Spain is of recent construction with modern circuit breakers
and RCDs.

I know well the purpose of the UK fuse, explained at 'All about fuses'
(http://www.glodark.co.uk/fuses.htm)

only mentions one of the purposes of the plug fuse. basic fuse choice
data wrong.

However, I am considering cutting the UK plugs in all appliance power
cords and replace them with the Spanish/ European one that does not have
a fuse.

I really do not think I am compromising much in terms of safety or
other. If there is a current overload, the circuit breaker will cut the
current. Surely, it will not be at the same amperage as the fuse, but it
will certainly not let a fire or cable melt happen.

Fires occur with UK and Spanish systems. If you want to know the
relative safety you could get hold of the spanish fire statistics and
compare. Doing it the other way round, looking at the potential causes
of fires, isn't effective, beacuse what matters is how many fires
result, not whether certain causes exist in each system or not.


NT