Mains power voltage drop to reduce usage?

SF?

I'm currently figting such a ticket.

Uhh.... ok that really takes the biscuit. Surely in Merca you can just sue? In the UK we just don't pay the ticket, wait till they take US (that's a capital us, not USA) to court, then laugh them out of court. Or more likely they don't bother as it costs money to go to court.

There was a surplus of jobs?

What happened to it, is it spent already?

San Francisco. The Land of Fruits and Nuts.

The only thing the government does really well here is issue parking tickets, usually around $75 for minor infractions. But you can get several if you leave your car all day.

That takes a lot of time. I usually just pay.

Circuits are ring wired in the UK too, aren't they? And use some sort of giant terminal blocks, no wire nuts.

We mostly use 12-2 Romex for house wiring now. Originally we had knob-and-tube, and then individual wires in conduit.

Romex leaks a lot of e-field so it's easy to trace wires inside walls.

tirsdag den 8. november 2022 kl. 22.04.27 UTC+1 skrev John Larkin:

here you can only get one per day, but if you park overnight you might get one at 23:55 and another at 00:05 ...

tirsdag den 8. november 2022 kl. 22.11.33 UTC+1 skrev John Larkin:

giant? wagos are smaller (and better) than wirenuts

A fuse in the plug protects against a damaged cord, though.

On Tuesday, 8 November 2022 at 12:10:26 UTC-8, Rod Speed wrote: ...

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Putting the fuse at the device doesn't protect the cable from the wall to the device if there is a short in the cable or in the device before the fuse.

If the wall socket is capable of 20A then every device cable should be capable of handing that even if the device only needs 1A. This requires much thicker device cables than are necessary if the fuse is at the plug.

kevin

Mostly, but the UK isn't the only jurisdiction that uses ring wiring.

They don't need to be that big at all.

Correct.

So did the UK.

DJ Delorie snipped-for-privacy@delorie.com wrote

But the reality is that the rest of the world does fine without that and doesn't get any more electrical fires due to the lack of a fuse in the plug.

Well, I pay some insurance that provides a remote lawyer. If I really can't park there, it is a real nuisance, so I try to fight. It is the second year, I think.

No, that doesn't happen here. I think they have to prove you moved the car in between.

We have one resident parrot, Qunicy, a blue-green pionus. Nasty beast.

I know why it happens, just not why people use a furnace with gas. It's a waste.

Actually I helped develop the SkyCovione vaccine.

So nor more than my single phase, so no benefit.

No, I meant within your house. If you want 24kW, you can't draw it all from one phase.

You have heard of the war with Russia, right?

Maybe Clarkson exaggerated, but they filmed a huge city block completely empty "because of the poverty" which they proceeded to race cars around.