Obviously, what you say is correct, but that is not what he said, and such
careless communication on a forum such as this could be dangerous to those
who do not understand.

Leonard

"Shawn D'Alimonte" wrote in message
...
Leonard Caillouet wrote:

That still does not make the load irrelevant. Those fuses are only of
use
in the case of a short in a unit. The capacity of the circuit is not
unlimited.

I think what was meant was that the number of devices plugged in does
not matter as long as the total load is kept under the rating of the
circuit (and the rating of any extension cords, power bars, etc.)

For example, a normal North American 15A circuit can supply 1 15A
device, 15 1A devices or 100 0.15A devices.

A computer is probably around 600W max, which at 220V (The original post
was from Britain, right?) is a bit under 3A. If the circuit can take
13A you could plug in 4 of those computers without a problem (assuming
nothing else is connected).


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