On 2012-09-11, The Natural Philosopher wrote:

Adam Funk wrote:
On 2012-08-09, Steve Firth wrote:

Rod doesn't seem to have a clue about how much wood is needed to fire an
oven, or how much time it takes. He also doesn't seem to know that most
homes in Italy have a 3kW supply. They can't run a pizza oven of the sort
sold at garden centres and ironmongers because to run the 3kw element they
would have to turn everything else off.

Do you mean most old or rural homes, or even new ones?

And does this have anything to do with the existence of 10 A sockets
and plugs (and special circuits, I assume) in Italy, in addition to
the usual European 13 A ones?

(Oops, I mean 16 A.)


(Sorry for the late FU, but I just happened to be rummaging through my
travel adaptors/cables recently & the 2nd question popped up.)

Rod is dumb and ignorant. Steve Firth is worse however. Whatever his
single experience is, he considers universally true.

Well, we all do that to some extent, especially with our own pet
subjects.

Although in this case he is probably correct. houses are fused at 13, 25
or 40A AFAICT.

Not the UK 60/100A standards

OK. Just wondering if that had anything to do with the lower-rated
sockets too.