Submitted 5 weeks ago by Adamsky@lemmy.zip to [deleted]
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Noticed this plug on my wall from when I moved into this house, and I just started wondering again about what it’s actually for. This is in the UK, if that helps. It’s on a big bulky box hanging on the wall below my desk next to two regular plug sockets.
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Fuse box for a alarm system it looks like. Shows up at 28 seconds
KnightsBridge 13A White Connection Unit 3 Amp Fused & Flex Outlet Electric Wall Plate
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Sounds like this could be Lemmy’s r/rimjobsteve.
I liked that sub.
Fuse box for one line. Fuses weren’t put in as standard when electricity was introduced. Many old houses just had live wires coming in with no breaker like today. For expensive electrical items added when there was no fuse, an electrician with install it with a dedicated fuse. If the electrical system has been updated where it enters the house, it may no longer be needed. However, if it is on a different circuit, it may be. Old fuse boxes were a bunch of replaceable physical fuses. Nowadays they are breaker switches for easy resetting and less waste.
Anyway, if whatever is connected to this gets a power surge, the fuse could trip and you would need to replace it. However it is not a plug, to add a different device or appliance, but just a safety pass through for the wire coming out the other end.
Early electrical grids were fucking wild lol. In my city, there were 3 different grids, with different voltages competing for customers (one was DC!) In the early days before it was standardized.
Not a plug, but a fuse box - that small panel would open up/pull out to let you replace the fuse.
Anything is a plug if you’re brave enough to stick your penis in the hole!
Here’s how to find out: use a small flat screwdriver to pull the central white thing out. It’s a cradle for a cylindrical fuse.
If there’s no fuse, it’s for something that’s been removed and they couldn’t be bothered to remove the fuse box and its wiring.
If there’s a fuse, you have disconnected the power by pulling the fuse out of the circuit. Check if something electrical stops working - alarm, shower, cooker, immersion heater, whatever’s on the other side of the wall, loft lights?
Maybe the fuse is there but has already fused, in which case you may want to find or purchase a replacement of the same rating, and find out what electrical thing started working! The fuse rating is written in faint text on the side of the cylinder. If the replace with a higher rated fuse, you allow things to happen in the device that someone thought shouldn’t happen and could blow the fuse to prevent damage or injury. If you replace with a lower rated fuse you risk it going in normal use, i.e. too frequently.
Make sure the screwdriver has a plastic or rubber grip lmao
Agreed. Always best to use an insulated screwdriver with anything near live electricity.
In this case, if the fusebox is manufactured correctly, there should be very little risk indeed, but you can’t be sure that some unscrupulous corporation made something that disintegrates or weirdly exposes live connections where it absolutely needn’t. It doesn’t look super well made because the little tray for the fuse should be flush with the front of the plate and not recessed like that!
I’d probably turn off the power first especially if I didn’t already know what was behind it and whether it is properly grounded.
Pluggin’
Awww. It looks happy.
I’d say it looks conFUSED
PlayStation memory card?
My metal gear solid save files!
Its purpose is pure pareidolia. I see a kid with fetal alcohol syndrome.
Holding fuses. Probably something else too, at least I’m partially right.
I showed chatgpt the picture and it was close to what others on here said.
“The image shows a fused spur or a fused connection unit (FCU). This type of electrical outlet is used to protect appliances that are permanently connected to the electrical supply without a standard plug, such as heaters, ovens, or lighting circuits.”
Then I asked what country this is most likely to have this in a home
“The fused spur or fused connection unit (FCU) in the image is most commonly found in homes in the United Kingdom and Ireland. This type of electrical fitting is a standard feature in these countries, where it is used for appliances that need to be hardwired into the electrical system, such as water heaters, ovens, or extractors. It may also be found in other countries that follow British electrical standards, but the UK and Ireland are the most likely.”
I thought that was interesting and wanted to share.
Wait, the UK wires their ovens and stoves directly into the wall without a plug?
Generally yeah, it’s not that uncommon in some builds of the US for ovens and dishwashers to be hard wired.
Melba toast
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