iaink

Isnt that rather the point of the internal low amp fuses inside many appliances (TVs, stereos etc)? You dont necessarily need an easy to access fuse on the outside.

But then I always did take "no user servicable parts inside" is a challenge rather than a warning.

iaink

indeed

Souvenir

They come with wings?

Comfy marrettes?

PeterF

Show me a lampstand with an internal low amp fuse

Oakvillian

they enable you to play tennis and go rollerblading while rewiring your house, apparently.

Souvenir

How about swimming?

iaink

Its called a lightbulb

Steve_P

That too.

MikeUK

I personally think that a fused plug significantly reduces the risk of fire due to damaged cables. Which in my limited experience is a real problem both here and in the UK, how many have cut a power cable with the power tool or burn an iron cable , or worn out the cable at the point it joins with a device.

In my opinion many safety standards in Canada are lower than that found in the UK, like many things in Canada people just accept it as the norm as they don’t know any better
I’m in the process of getting a new test device wired up to go in my Lab at work, some of the ‘legal’ suggestions from the maintenance company here would violate half the basic government safety rules I’d expect to find in the UK and shut my lab down….
So rather than legally install a potential death trap I’m getting the maintenance contractors in to re-do their proposal to something that won’t result in a risk of electrocution

iaink

Please, find me ANY statistics that point to a higher incidence of death by electocution in canada/US vs the UK.

Canada is the ultimate nanny state, you can bet your last timbit that if it was really any safer, we would be made to do it differently.

Souvenir

Is it? I have watched roofers working here. I cannot believe they would be able to work like that in the UK.

PeterF

The light bulb will not detect a fault where the cable is cut and a high resistance route is present between live and neutral.

The cable can conduct even when the light is off and heat up, wasting energy, money and/or cause a fire.

The lampstand is just an example, most electrical goods will not have a fuse, whilst most electronic ones will.

Most will be cabled for the expected load, not for the expected back up MCB protection.

PeterF

http://www.statemaster.com/graph/cri...-electrocution
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iaink

Read some of the MoL citations for roofing accidents. Half million dollar fines are not at all uncommon. There are many many rules..perhaps so many that people ultimately ignore them.

Not just corporations paying fines either, managers, supervisors, humble employees paying $20k fines too.

iaink

LOL Cant argue with that!