On Sat, 10 Nov 2018 23:14:51 -0000, Rod Speed wrote:



"Steven Watkins" wrote in message
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On Sat, 10 Nov 2018 22:37:29 -0000, George
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On 11/10/2018 5:13 PM, NY wrote:
"Steven Watkins" wrote in message
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And you could have just used the fuse/circuit breaker in the consumer
unit for that.

About the only advantage of a fuse over a circuit breaker is that you
can physically remove a fuse and keep it with you while you are working
on the appliance, safe in the knowledge that almost certainly no power
can be restored. A circuit breaker can
be restored to the on position by someone who doesn't know that it is
off for a reason.

I heard of a case years ago of a woman who called out an electrician.
The electrician turned off one circuit and started work. The husband got
home from work, saw that the ring main was off, thought it had tripped
and turned it back on. The electrician
died even though the RCD tripped within the regulation time, probably
because it was an hand-to-hand across-the-chest shock and he had had a
heart attack previously which left him more susceptible.

The husband must have been a real "maroon". Apparently seeing the
Sparky's Electric Service van in the driveway not a big enough clue? =-O

Maybe he lived in one of those dodgy areas where nobody has their own
driveway, and the electrician was parked some distance away?

And why was someone with a heart condition being an electrician?

Likely because that happened as he got older.

The taxi driver who drove me home from the airport
after I had come back from the state capital after having
a stent after the heart attack had also had the same.

His fault for continuing a job he was unfit for.