Lieutenant Scott wrote:
On Mon, 21 Nov 2011 12:33:59 -0000, The Other Mike
wrote:

On Mon, 21 Nov 2011 03:21:51 -0000, "Lieutenant Scott"
wrote:


BTW I take it the smoke alarms are ok on batteries, because all the
mains
can fail due to a fire in the wire before your meter. Happened to my
neighbour due to loose connection. Electric board too stupid to
fuse this wire at substation.

I find that hard, no make that impossible, to believe.

What don't you believe? The fire? He had the wire going into the
eaves, it was an old house. The hot wire ignited the rafters.

The non-fusing? If there was a fuse, the substation wouldn't have
hummed very loudly and thrown sparks for a full 10 minutes. Also the
electric board guy confirmed it when I asked him. He said it was "too
expensive to fit them".

Odd. Ive got one :-)