On Monday, 17 November 2014 14:00:36 UTC, Chris French wrote:
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whisky-dave writes
On Sunday, 16 November 2014 13:40:28 UTC, ARW wrote:
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On Sunday, November 16, 2014 10:14:37 AM UTC, ARW wrote:
I blew one a few years ago at work. I removed a cooker switch and caused
a
LE short.

That's quite an achievement when following safe isolation procedures :-)


Rules are there to be broken.

So are fuses..... ;-)

So I did wonder why I was asked if I'd ever heard of one blowing.
I assume they must do otherwise they'd be pretty useless and not used.

Of course they serve a useful purpose

I'd assume so and te4h use of a fuse is for safety nothing else.


I didn't ask you, my response was to Peter C who suggested that the
reason for some one wanting to fit a lower value main fuse was as a way
for the supply co to reduce demand.

I must have missed that point ad I'd very much doubt it would effect demand.


I was just pointing out that main fuses don't normally blow, so that was
an unlikely reason.

The responses here have confirmed that, since all the cases people have
recounted have involved some unusual event.

Yep that's what fuse's are for, blowing in an 'unusual event'
mostly related to too much current being drawn and a significant amount over what would normally be expected.