Re: British (european?) kitchen counter electric outlets

On 6/10/24 23:45, bud-- wrote:

As I expect you figured out, Christmas lights have tiny wire and need protection.

Christmas lights are just the only example that came to mind in the U.S.A.
I would personally prefer to have a 13A fuse on an extension cord plugged into a 15A outlet so that the fuse would blow close to where I'm using the cord instead of having to traipse through a building to the breaker panel.

Probably somewhere in this thread, the UK you have 30-32A ring circuits and current about half here with correspondingly small cord wire so you need fuses in plugs.  One fuse?

I would think that you'd want to open the (both) hot(s).  Much like how you want a double poll breaker to open both hots on a 240 V domestic load in the U.S.A.
Blowing / opening one hot would still leave live power via the other hot in a dual hot cord.
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Grant. . . .