On 27/05/2015 10:32, Rod Speed wrote:


"dennis@home" wrote in message
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On 26/05/2015 23:05, wrote:


bad connection. Radials suffer much worse from them than rings.

A ring has more connections so a bad one is more likely.

Yes, but a ring continues to work fine when a bad connection happens.

And that is good because?


The effects are different.

And rings handle a single bad connection fine.

But they dont, they can overload because they are no longer a ring.
The average user can't know if its faulty or if they are overloading it
because of that fault.
Just because something continues to work when faulty doesn't mean its a
good thing, in the majority of cases you want to know its gone faulty.
If you want a ring to continue working with the fault you need different
cable or a different breaker.

It would be nice if something told you it had broken so you can get it
fixed, I used to do this with fault tolerant computer systems all the
time, they were useless if you didn't fix them before the next fault
took them down.