Re: British (european?) kitchen counter electric outlets

On 6/15/24 7:51 PM, bud-- wrote:

On 6/11/2024 9:26 PM, Grant Taylor wrote:

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

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

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Christmas lights are just the only example that came to mind in the U.S.A.
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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.
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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?

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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.
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Blowing / opening one hot would still leave live power via the other hot in a dual hot cord.
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 I think UK is 230V hot-neutral?
 

Sort of;
The UK is traditionally 240V along with many other UK influenced countries such as Australia. While mainland Europe was 230V.
To achieve a common standard without any physical changes the tolerances are asymmetric at 230V +10%/-6%. (As of 2022 the standard has now been widened to be 230V +10%/-10%).
The UK is normally described as having 240V AC power.
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