It is safer for the fuse to be in the plug for those people who think they are electricians and end up causing house fires or bzzzt’ing themselves
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skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.de 6 days agofuse is in plug and accessible only when plug is disconnected
it’s also a very weird thing because fuses are supposed to protect what is downstream of them. so effectively fuse in plug protects cord and appliance only, not the wires in the wall. there’s breaker box for this
x4740N@lemm.ee 4 days ago
skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.de 4 days ago
i understand that it’s remnant from times when fusebox wasn’t a thing and it was an attempt at protecting ring circuit, that’s all. it makes little sense
Proprietary_Blend@lemmy.world 6 days ago
Whoa. Thanks all!