1 Aug
2001
1 Aug
'01
5:22 p.m.
On Wed, 1 Aug 2001, Doug Carman wrote:
Tony Duell wrote:
Actually, you need not short them out to be in trouble. Just hook
enough of those suckers end to end and the wiring in the first one
gets almighty hot - and perhaps incandesent. A friend did it to
himself a number of years back. Rather exciting for a while, what
with fire engines and all that. Rather embarassing later trying to
explain to his fellow engineers how it happened!
- don
Does this mean you can have the rediculous situation of a piece of 3A
mains cable (say for a table lamp) being protected by the 20A fuse in the
fuse box? Ouch!
Everything in the U.S. is wired that way. Central circuit
breakers/fuses and anything plugged in to the circuit beyond that.
That's why they started making Xmas tree lights with fuses in the
plugs. Imagine shorting out a string of lights with a 20A breaker
feeding the circuit. --
Doug Carman
pdp11(a)bellsouth.net