Audio Precision System One Dual Domani Measuirement Systems

Cover the coils? How last centaury. B-)

Most electric kettles this side of the pond have a flat plate element in the bottom, minimum quantity about half a mug full. We also have "rapid boil" kettles rated at just under 3kW. Similar 1.7l (3.5 US liquid pints, 3 UK pints) capacity though.

Just plugs into the ring, along with the microwave, toaster(*), washing machine, tumble dryer etc, none of those have circuits of their own. B-) How ever it is becoming more common to have the kitchen (and thus all those appliances) on it's own ring, then two others for "up stairs" and "down stairs".

(*) As in bread, not sure what a "toaster oven" is.

One of them was the relay for the PIR-triggered lights on the landing outside. Nice solid clonk. At any time of night :(

Andy

given that it draws 12.5 A at 240 V, so an equivalent one for 110V would

Ah. There are some villages or parts of towns which to this day don't have a gas supply. My parents have a holiday cottage in the Yorkshire Dales (near where the TV series All Creatures Great and Small was filmed, if you ever saw that) and about 15 years ago a gas pipe was installed up the main road to serve other villages nearby. Houses on that road got a gas supply installed for free but the main part of the village 1/4 mile away were quoted a stupid, completely unaffordable cost for installing a gas pipe. The farmer offered to dig a trench alongside the road to reduce the gas company's cost (for safety reasons only the gas company could actually install the pipe and connect it to the trunk pipe) but even that wasn't going to reduce the cost at all.

So we're stuck with either oil or bottled Calor propane gas for heating. When my parents had central heating installed, bottled gas was cheaper than oil so they had a gas boiler fitted. Now it's the other way round: bottled propane is a horrendous price, second only to electric storage heaters, and oil would have been cheaper. Such is life!

Likewise my fiancee's village doesn't have a gas supply though I'm sure there will be a big gas pipe going along the main road 1/2 mile away. Probably the story is the same: "We'll install a gas pipe but it will cost a horrendous amount per house". My first house didn't have gas although it was built as recently as the mid-80s. The houses nearby did: it seems that the builder of my estate chose not to pay for a gas feed to his houses but the builder of the neighbouring estate elected to have gas supplied to his houses, so there was a branch feeding one estate but not the other. Very short-sighted - and it was reflected in the house prices. Electric storage heaters and an electric immersion heater as the *only* means of heating bath-water (as opposed to as a suppliment to a gas boiler) worked out expensive. That was the immersion heater that exploded (see my earlier posting). Luckily the tank was fitted with two heating elements: the one that heated the whole tank only came on at night when there was a cheaper tariff (*) but there was another half-way up the tank that heated at least

(*) "Economy 7", which is a dual tariff whereby you pay slightly more than normal for daytime electricity but significantly less for 7 hours during the night when a timer (installed by the electricty company and sealed to prevent it being tampered with to change the cheap hours!) turns on storage heaters and the whole-tank immersion heater.

The most useless type of central heating that I've ever encountered was in my parents' previous house, early 1970s vintage. Gas-fired hot-air heating which had an enormous floor-to-ceiling boiler that pumped warm air through aluminium ducts to grilles in the floor or wall. The air that came out of the vent in my bedroom was barely detectable even with a feather and was tepid at best. I started getting a vile smell in my bedroom and we eventually discovered that my little sister had taken up her floor vent and thrown a sandwich down there... which had started to go mouldy :-(

Are you located near a shale deposit and have you considered drilling?

At least it was not a mouse or rat.

When I had my kitchen re-done recently I took the opportunity to split off the kitchen sockets as a separate ring. My main motivation was to be able to supply it from a separate RCD as, in my experience, kitchen appliances are the major cause of nuisance tripping.

David.

Then it needed to be inspected and repaired. That is a common symptom of an open neutral, or one that is failing.

That would fail inspection in the US, because the wiring trough at the top is missing its cover.

Or yellow. or Orange. Or Red. Or Green. Or Gray. It depends on the OEM, some use it to identify their product. I've seen all thouse colors in use.

#12 AWG is used for 20A circuits. (Outlets) How is that 1/4?

#14 AWG is used for 15A circuits. (Lighting)

It's not UL approved, so insurance companies wouldn't insure buildings where it was used. If a building inspector is honest, it will fail inspection and on CoO will be issued. If that happens, the builder can't transfer ownership, and has to do repairs with approve materials, or pay off the construction loans and eat the loss.

#12 AWG, not 20 gauge!

So what? It was defective. A good plug in a good outlet doesn't get hot. Since it requires calling in union workers to do repairs in 'The City' people put up with crap that could kill them.

Gee. We have electric or gas water heaters in the US. They've been around since gas or electricity was available. Solar water heaters were popular, before gas, but they disappeared into the 'European Follies, I & II' as raw material for the War Material Board.

A small, counter top electric oven that runs on a 20A 120V circuit. They are quite common to cook small meals, or for additional capacity for a large meal where you need multiple temperatures.

As are most electronic meters in the US. They have been replacing millions of the mechanical meters, every year, for years.

It sounds like they replaced the 60V 30A CVT with a UPS. We were doing that in the early '80s, in Cincinnati.

There are atleast two around here. They like to build near Wal-Marts.

Some towns are built on so much rock that you need explosives to dig a trench. You had to get a blasting permit to set a pole in Cincinnati. All those poles were tagged. RIP. (Replace In Place.)

Not legal in the US but you do find were some Bozo does it, after the inspection.