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NY wrote:
The European way sounds like the closest you'll get to
individually-fused plugs, in that if an appliance develops a fault it
will probably trip its socket's MCB and not take out anything else. But
it must use vast amounts of cable and require enormous MCB boards, given
maybe two or three double-gang sockets in each of maybe four bedrooms, a
living room, a dining room and a kitchen. Plus the heavy-duty MCBs for
cooker, shower etc, and the one(s) for lighting circuits.

If every socket in this medium sized Victorian house was on a radial run
back to a central fusebox with an MCB per socket outlet, it would need a
switch room the size of a bedroom. And all the walls would be thicker to
conceal the cables.

So either you seriously restrict the number of sockets - leading to a mess
of extension cables etc in practice - or you forget about this foreign
rubbish and be happy we have the best domestic solution in the world.

Anyone who thinks different is simply an idiot with no real life
experience of such things.

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Dave Plowman London SW
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