On Fri, 27 Jun 2014 00:59:02 -0700 (PDT), wrote:

On Thursday, June 26, 2014 7:02:53 PM UTC+1, Andrew Gabriel wrote:
In article o.uk,

"Dave Liquorice" writes:

Not going to happen, most people are so used to just plugging

anything in anywhere and it working they get very confused if the

circuit trips. Was in the Dr's Surgery a while back and the power

tripped, came back then tripped again, rinse an repeat a few times.

Turns out the gas heating had packed in so they had half a dozen

electric heaters on...



There was a larger scale one in Luton some years back.

Major gas main failure cut off gas to a neighbourhood.

Gas company delivered electric heaters to all the houses.

An hour later, substation transformer burned out (ISTR

it exploded into flames).



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Andrew Gabriel

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Thanks for all the replies guys. It has turned into an interesting and entertaining thread as is usual round here. I think I will go with a conventional 300W Flood which is what I've used in the past. If it turns out to be the last straw, i'll just turn it off.

It's worth considering that a 300W linear halogen lamp will have a
turn on surge that equates very closely to the current draw of a 3KW
electric kettle. Whilst a 20 to 50 watt LED lamp might create a switch
on surge, I rather suspect it won't be quite the magnitude of a 300W
linear halogen lamp.
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J B Good