Re: U.K Stereo moving to the US

In article <Itkre.2854$EP2.14294@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Do Little2 <listed@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Don't be silly. All overhead supplied domestic supplies are RCD
> > protected. Fitted by the supply provider.

> Not silly at all, I only wrote what a Canadian visitor saw in a barn
> near Whitby in the UK.

A barn is unlikely to be directly supplied, but 'exported' from the
adjacent farm house. And will then be protected by the supplier's RCD.
And if it really did have a knife switch that dates back to DC days - ie
before WW2. I've never seen one outside a museum of such things. ;-)

> > None of the silly thermal devices so loved across the pond. ;-)

> Good point! However, most thermal devices have been outlawed (in the
> 1970's ?) in television, radios, etc..

But as circuit breakers in domestic installations?

> BTW, just how do they adjust the electrical heating for the houses in
> the UK ? :-)

No one in their right mind uses electricity for heating. We use gas or oil.
It would only make sense if that electricity was generated by some other
fuel - like renewable energy. But not if it's generated by oil or gas.

You can get very close to 100% efficiency with a condensing gas boiler -
not really possible with a variable demand gas burning power station, even
before the transmission losses.

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