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Crankit posted:the fuse is to stop faulty appliances catching fire, not anything to do with ring circuits. i didn’t know lucas made appliances
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more fuses is more better. pretty cheap safety all told.
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The_Franz posted:do british houses still have cold water storage tanks in the attic that get filled up with dust, insects and dead mice?
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jesus WEP posted:its still pretty common in ireland but in gb almost all houses have natural gas to heat water the tanks are p much all decommissioned, but whether they were removed or left sitting empty depends on the owner
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iceland I think uses high pressure geothermal steam for heating water in cities. bore hole gets drilled into a geothermal steam activity layer or whatever it's actually called, pipe gets connected, high pressure steam gets shot into town and becomes cool and condensed enough to be a useful heat exchanger on the way there
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Cybernetic Vermin posted:more fuses is more better. pretty cheap safety all told. the fact that the US doesn’t have fuses in all cords, especially extension cords, is pretty poo poo tbh
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Crankit posted:the fuse is to stop faulty appliances catching fire, not anything to do with ring circuits. normal people just have a fuse box, because appliances aren't faulty that often Kazinsal posted:iceland I think uses high pressure geothermal steam for heating water in cities. bore hole gets drilled into a geothermal steam activity layer or whatever it's actually called, pipe gets connected, high pressure steam gets shot into town and becomes cool and condensed enough to be a useful heat exchanger on the way there and it all smells like farts. You get used to it after a couple of showers but up until then it's plain weird
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Jun 27, 2021 22:34
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Crankit posted:the fuse is to stop faulty appliances catching fire, not anything to do with ring circuits. FFS it wasn't that long ago that most appliances were sold without a loving plug there.
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Jun 27, 2021 23:09
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yeah I remember a tom scott video a while back about how british kids learned how to install plugs on power cords in school because it was a necessary household skill entirely unsurprised that the english kept around ways to force children to do industrial tasks all the way into the 21st century
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evil_bunnY posted:Because the loving limeys didn't have fuseboxes, because ring mains. HTH. What makes you think having a ring main precludes the possibility of having a fuse box (it doesn't, you have one fuse per circuit and they live in a fuse box)
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Rufus Ping posted:What makes you think having a ring main precludes the possibility of having a fuse box (it doesn't, you have one fuse per circuit and they live in a fuse box) then why didn’t they do this instead of having a fuse on everything
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Jun 27, 2021 23:48
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the fuses/breakers in the box protect the wires inside the walls, they don’t care about the four extension cords you have plugged into a splitter into a single outlet
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Boiled Water posted:then why didn’t they do this instead of having a fuse on everything Because a faulty kettle shouldn't be able to draw 30A before blowing and then knock half your house out in the process
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Jun 27, 2021 23:54
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fuse box and fuses in the cables solve different problems. if you have a 20 gauge extension cord that thing will melt before you trip the circuit breaker. the reason why brits need fuses on everything is lol, but fuses on everything would be a good idea even with sane wiring
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yeah, and a lot of 80s computer equipment used to have replaceable fuses in the power supplies iirc. higher end guitar amplifiers still do too because their peak current draw is proportional to the input they receive from the instrument so if you absolutely blast a chord with super hot active pickups going into a loud rear end boost pedal your amp is going to go "oh gently caress here we go again" and instead of a red hot vacuum tube exploding and lighting your rig on fire the fuse will just blow
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Kazinsal posted:yeah, and a lot of 80s computer equipment used to have replaceable fuses in the power supplies iirc. higher end guitar amplifiers still do too because their peak current draw is proportional to the input they receive from the instrument so if you absolutely blast a chord with super hot active pickups going into a loud rear end boost pedal your amp is going to go "oh gently caress here we go again" and instead of a red hot vacuum tube exploding and lighting your rig on fire the fuse will just blow that first outcome is a feature for some performers.
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Jun 28, 2021 00:00
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Midjack posted:that first outcome is a feature for some performers. "due to the lead guitarist blowing up a boogie at the end of every show ticket prices have had to increase by $10 this tour"
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Kazinsal posted:"due to the lead guitarist blowing up a boogie at the end of every show ticket prices have had to increase by $10 this tour" https://youtu.be/ZF_unm13wnM
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Kazinsal posted:iceland I think uses high pressure geothermal steam for heating water in cities. bore hole gets drilled into a geothermal steam activity layer or whatever it's actually called, pipe gets connected, high pressure steam gets shot into town and becomes cool and condensed enough to be a useful heat exchanger on the way there very, very regrettably it smells strongly of sulphur, so if you greet your loved one after a shower they stink like rotten eggs
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Kesper North posted:very, very regrettably it smells strongly of sulphur, so if you greet your loved one after a shower they stink like rotten eggs oh man I didn't know they were running it straight into the water systems, I thought it was a heat exchanger system faaaaaaaaart look out here comes my icelandic shower
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Jun 28, 2021 00:39
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in contrast the dutch just used it to power their ovens
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Kazinsal posted:oh man I didn't know they were running it straight into the water systems, I thought it was a heat exchanger system iceland has two valves on its taps. one dispenses crystalline pure water that has been filtered through lava rock for millions of years and comes out at a temperature of 0.1C and the other is a tap that dispenses fire and brimstone at 1000C. you risk life and limb turning on the tap in a hotel room and sticking your hand in because this world could end in fire or it could end in ice and, well, do you feel lucky punk
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The_Franz posted:do british houses still have cold water storage tanks in the attic that get filled up with dust, insects and dead mice? In Malta we do but that's mostly because the mains pressure is so bad.
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Jabor posted:in contrast the dutch just used it to power their ovens
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xtal posted:I wash myself with a rag on a stick lol
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the only valid criticism of british plugs is that they are loving painful to step on
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pointsofdata posted:the only valid criticism of british plugs is that they are loving painful to step on
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Crankit posted:the fuse is to stop faulty appliances catching fire, not anything to do with ring circuits. it has everything to do with ring circuits. they're breaker'd to deliver significantly higher current than spur circuits, while also only actually being able to carry 2/3 of that current on any one conductor. this is both more likely to light the faulty appliance cord on fire, and more likely to light the wires in the walls on fire if the load is highly unbalanced fuses in plugs are a real good idea in general though 
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Kazinsal posted:yeah I remember a tom scott video a while back about how british kids learned how to install plugs on power cords in school because it was a necessary household skill a useful life skill to this day when Ali Express sellers send the wrong thing. but it was 94 it became mandatory to sell with the correct UK plug, not quite the 21st century.
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Cerv posted:a useful life skill to this day when Ali Express sellers send the wrong thing. who managed to force their hand? please say the eu
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it’s useful to know how to wire the plug anyway, i have a hidden conduit for my wall-mounted tv that is too narrow for a plug to pass through, so cutting and rewiring is the only option if the power lead isn’t detachable from the television set
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Jun 28, 2021 14:08
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jesus WEP posted:it’s useful to know how to wire the plug anyway, i have a hidden conduit for my wall-mounted tv that is too narrow for a plug to pass through, so cutting and rewiring is the only option if the power lead isn’t detachable from the television set it is so useful, but at the same time I imagine most people will never need it, so having a ton of home-wired plugs surely must increase the amount of faults in said plugs a sort of self-sec-power-own
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Boiled Water posted:who managed to force their hand? please say the eu nope, it was just domestic matter
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jesus WEP posted:it’s useful to know how to wire the plug anyway, i have a hidden conduit for my wall-mounted tv that is too narrow for a plug to pass through, so cutting and rewiring is the only option if the power lead isn’t detachable from the television set I thought code prohibited running power leads through walls. I think here at least you have to use stuff with appropriate rating like Romex or whatever. I bought a kit that is basically a fire-safe extension cord with faceplates at each end, and some day I will get around to installing it.
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actual secfuck: the company security team blocked a bunch of domains over the weekend, including the CDN that hosts bootstrap, which we use on one of our main sites lol. sorry end users!
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Chris Knight posted:actual secfuck: the company security team blocked a bunch of domains over the weekend, including the CDN that hosts bootstrap, which we use on one of our main sites lol. sorry end users! lol. nice. Old workplace used to block all .rs TLDs making any Rust development and research near impossible. 
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are the clients external? in that case it should still work, right? you just can't develop the site
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Subjunctive posted:I thought code prohibited running power leads through walls. I think here at least you have to use stuff with appropriate rating like Romex or whatever. I bought a kit that is basically a fire-safe extension cord with faceplates at each end, and some day I will get around to installing it. it’s almost certainly against code everywhere with modern code standards but when has that stopped the diyer (myself included)
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buncha scofflaws itt
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new online banking service, in 2021.. max 12 characters, letters and numbers only 
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