sloppy wording, i meant “switched sockets and fused plugs”.
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Wanderer@lemm.ee 5 weeks 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 5 weeks ago
cecilkorik@lemmy.ca 5 weeks 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 5 weeks 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 5 weeks ago
No fuses in the switch box though, it’s a box of circuits breakers
Wanderer@lemm.ee 5 weeks ago
Yea I know, I said that.
People still call them fuse boxes though.
ALiteralCabbage@feddit.uk 5 weeks 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 5 weeks 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 5 weeks ago
Yes. I believe that’s true but I’ve never done it myself.