Comment on Why do so many UK electrical sockets have an on/off switch next to them?

lime@feddit.nu ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

the UK power grid is weird. mostly due to echoes of the war. used to be that, to save copper, the entire house and sometimes multiple houses on a street would be wired as one big loop of wire, no fuse box or anything. that’s where the individually fused and switched sockets come from. then, since it turned out to be quite a good idea for safety, they kept doing it.

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