HELLO! How to know how much you uk socket can take?

[telectrix]

Anyone else in favour of following the rest of Europe in banning ring-final circuits to improve safety?

That's a big NO from me. We're leaving the EU, mainly due to the UK electorate being fed up with the tin-pot dictators telling us what to do (apart from grabbing millions of our hard-earned). long live the RFC, Red/Yellow/Blue, feet and inches, and English real ale.

 

[Pete999]

Anyone else in favour of following the rest of Europe in banning ring-final circuits to improve safety?

That's a big NO from me. We're leaving the EU, mainly due to the UK electorate being fed up with the tin-pot dictators telling us what to do (apart from grabbing millions of our hard-earned). long live the RFC, Red/Yellow/Blue, feet and inches, and English real ale.

What he said with bells on^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

 

[electric al]

Unelected beuracrats meddling in every aspect of this countries affairs . Let's be honest Britain is envied and loathed in equal measure by most of Europe and the French inparticular have never forgiven us for liberating them. Take whatever powers we can back from them

 

[I2C]

Anyone else in favour of following the rest of Europe in banning ring-final circuits to improve safety?

That's a big NO from me. We're leaving the EU, mainly due to the UK electorate being fed up with the tin-pot dictators telling us what to do (apart from grabbing millions of our hard-earned). long live the RFC, Red/Yellow/Blue, feet and inches, and English real ale.

I totally agree with the leaving-EU part! I've never understood how countries which have completely different climates, cultures, and traditions; should be run in the same way. It results in a bland-uniformity without respect for the values held by individual countries citizens. (Only my opinion of course) I digress...

Regardless of political factors, ring-final circuits remain inherently dangerous because during a single-fault condition (such as an open-circuit in one of the live conductors) the circuit remains operational without symptoms, while significantly reducing the total current-carrying-capacity of the conductors - potentially leading to an over-current which will not be protected by the circuit-breaker.

With regards to the change in colours (red/yellow/blue to brown/black/grey), I'm not 100% sure but I've heard that it was harmonised throughout Europe because colour-blind people find the new colours easier to see (generally, not always of course)? If there's any colour-blind members here, I'd love to hear more.