sloppy wording, i meant “switched sockets and fused plugs”.
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Wanderer@lemm.ee 2 months agoWhy are people saying this?
I’ve lived in multiple UK houses and never once seen a socket with a fuse. Are you saying this was change way way back in the day?
All houses have fuse boxes (which then got upgraded to circuit breakers). Not one fuses in sockets. Would be a fucking nightmare to take the socket off and change a fuse.
lime@feddit.nu 2 months ago
cecilkorik@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
The fuse is actually in the UK plug (the big brick-like thing with the wire on it), not the socket. But yes, it’s a thing, and most of the rest of the world considers it overkill. Also a lot of cheap junky equipment (ironically the stuff where you’d most want the plug) omits the fuse in the plug, go figure.
Wanderer@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Yea I know, I’ve wired a plug.
Never seen a fuse in a socket though. That comment is completely wrong and yet it’s the most up voted reply.
silasmariner@programming.dev 2 months ago
No fuses in the switch box though, it’s a box of circuits breakers
Wanderer@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Yea I know, I said that.
People still call them fuse boxes though.
ALiteralCabbage@feddit.uk 2 months ago
The used to be - I had a flat that used an old style fused breaker. Fun times trying to replace a fuse when it had blown…
x4740N@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Didn’t the uk used to have appliances without plugs that you’d need to wire yourself If inrecalling that Tom Scott video correctly
Wanderer@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Yes. I believe that’s true but I’ve never done it myself.