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Electrical Safety First Warning.

Don't overload sockets and extension leads.....

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-8174165/People-working-home-told-pay-extra-attention-electrical-safety.html


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  • My shack and workshop are fed via a 13 amp sockets which is outdoors I have a 1.5 kilowatt heater 3 fluorescent lights plus what ever else I'm.using and in all these years I've never popped a 13 amp fuse I think I would of once when I reversed an electrolytic cap and when I switched on it tripped the 16 amp RCBO in the house. I know my installation is wrong by the regs but now I have neither the physical ability or the money to change it
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  • My shack and workshop are fed via a 13 amp sockets which is outdoors I have a 1.5 kilowatt heater 3 fluorescent lights plus what ever else I'm.using and in all these years I've never popped a 13 amp fuse I think I would of once when I reversed an electrolytic cap and when I switched on it tripped the 16 amp RCBO in the house. I know my installation is wrong by the regs but now I have neither the physical ability or the money to change it
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