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How do we create or adapt infrastructure within homes or workplaces so that DC appliances can be adopted?
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(which has fortunately become rarer since the introduction of RCDs), than to prevention of fire. Personally, I worry much more about the latter.
I think correctly so - the proliferation of always on electronic ‘thingys’ of variable quality is not helping, and the standards that are meant to underpin CE marks and so forth are largely unenforced at the shallow end. Against this, there may be a tendency for fires caused by clothes on heaters and pans left on rings to be attributed to ‘electrical fire' when in many cases ‘lack of thought' would be more true.
There may be quite a few un-reported shocks, but electrocutions in the UK are jolly rare, some tens per year in fact- so they end up in the news, unlike fires, which are just as tragic, but more common, and so not as remarkable.
(which has fortunately become rarer since the introduction of RCDs), than to prevention of fire. Personally, I worry much more about the latter.
I think correctly so - the proliferation of always on electronic ‘thingys’ of variable quality is not helping, and the standards that are meant to underpin CE marks and so forth are largely unenforced at the shallow end. Against this, there may be a tendency for fires caused by clothes on heaters and pans left on rings to be attributed to ‘electrical fire' when in many cases ‘lack of thought' would be more true.
There may be quite a few un-reported shocks, but electrocutions in the UK are jolly rare, some tens per year in fact- so they end up in the news, unlike fires, which are just as tragic, but more common, and so not as remarkable.
