On Tue, 10 Jan 2017 04:00:00 -0000, wrote:

On Tue, 10 Jan 2017 01:02:03 -0000, "James Wilkinson Sword"
wrote:


In the UK, most houses have every single outlet in the house on one breaker. Another breaker does lights, another does the water heater, another does the shower, another does the cooker. But all appliances smaller than that, that you can move around, are on the same one. It's 30 amps at 240 volts.

You use a ring circuit, totally different breed of cat.

Being a ring doesn't make any difference to its use. It just means you use 15A wire in a loop instead of 30A in a straight line. Pointless if you ask me, and dangerous if the ring breaks, but it's to save wire or something.

Aren't the outlets also protected at 10a?

No, but the plug itself on each appliance has a fuse from 1A to 13A depending on the appliance.

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