On Friday, 23 March 2018 18:17:55 UTC, Sam wrote:
On 23/03/2018 18:16, dennis@home wrote:
On 23/03/2018 18:07, Sam wrote:
On 23/03/2018 17:57, whisky-dave wrote:
On Friday, 23 March 2018 17:46:17 UTC, SamÂ* wrote:

Â*Â* ANd don;t forget the FUSE is to protect the cable NOT the item
of equipent so it really doesnlt matter what current rating the
electric fire is, you put the fuse in that is correct for the cable..




Nonsense!

Fact.

Your view is too simplistic. Any fuse value below the rating of the
cable will protect it. Therefore a "univeral" cable rated at say 5amps
feeding an appliance rated at say 2 amps will still be protected by
using a fuse suitable for the appliance.



If an appliance needs a fuse for protection it should be in the
appliance. Plug fuses are not there to protect the appliance and can't
be relied on to do so.

So?

The idea that the plug fuse is solely to protect the flex is a pov much promoted, but a proper look at it shows it doesn't really add up.

Of course you can take that approach, but fitting better chosen fuses does improve safety and costs zero extra, so is the more sensible thing to do. As the owner of many historic electrical goods & the occasional 3rd world import I'd hate to run any of them on a 13A fuse.

As ever such ideas lead to idiocy like people being ordered to replace appropriate fuses with higher rated ones etc.


NT