A couple of years ago there was a company selling fused plugs in the US in the local Menards, but I haven't seen them sold since then.
Dave On 10/10/2011 12:39 AM, Jon Elson wrote: > andy pugh wrote: > >> The plug fuse is intended to protect the appliance flex (the device >> should be internally fused, if it matters). The idea is that a short >> in the appliance can't burn out the flex between the plug and >> appliance. >> >> <snip> >> >> So, I agree that the plug fuse can protect a dodgy ring main, but it >> is in the wrong place to do that by design. >> >> > Yes, I specifically like the plug fuse as a way to protect fine-gauge > appliance cords, > not the building wiring. I have seen appliances where the cord (you > call this flex, > I see) is very light gauge, and worry that if the appliance shorts or > maybe furniture > crushes the cord that it might not draw enough current to trip the > breaker. Of course, > the other fix is to never permit cords finer than, perhaps 14 Gauge (in > our AWG > scale). I know I've seen many appliances with 18 Gauge cords, and some > that look > even finer. > > Jon > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure contains a > definitive record of customers, application performance, security > threats, fraudulent activity and more. Splunk takes this data and makes > sense of it. Business sense. IT sense. Common sense. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-d2dcopy1 > _______________________________________________ > Emc-users mailing list > Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure contains a definitive record of customers, application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. Business sense. IT sense. Common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-d2dcopy1 _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
