Residental electrical load [was Re: Who's rewired their house for this hobby?]

[Jon Elson]

On 11/30/2014 11:54 AM, Christian Kennedy wrote:
> My suspicion is that this is actually in the same category 
> as the control lock that’s supposed to deter children; 
> being the US this smells like someone came up with a novel 
> product liability theory and someone decide to drop a few 
> extra lines of code in order to appease the corporate 
> legal types.
Yes, and if left to reach completion, they will have you 
buying all your pots
and pans with serial numbers that match the stove.  All 
others will be
refused.  Oh, maybe that is only for printer cartridges.

Jon