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Don't boil the kettle while charging your electric car because it will blow the fuse, National Grid

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  1. Jimmy79

    Jimmy79 Banned

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    I can't even think of the last time I saw a fuse in a house. Maybe the one I grew up in that didn't even have electricity when it was built.

    I believe it was later 70s when we started using breakers instead of fuses.
     
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    Oh the house I grew up in mostly had old school fuses. It didn't just have fuses, it had multiple fuse boxes, including one I called the Frankenstein Fuse Box because it was huge with a huge handle and long fuses that I don't think ever blew once the entire time we lived there. If they had, I am not sure we could have found replacements. There was no rhyme or reason to the wiring in that house. When a glass fuse went, it was just random crap everywhere depending on which wire they had hooked into when doing those outlets. Old cloth-insulated wiring to boot on most lines. I am surprised it never burned down. Too many do it yourselfers in the chain of title that place.
     
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    Just_a_Citizen Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    I think it was late '70's early 80's when they were mandatory code in most areas.
     
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    They may be code, but I haven't had a fuse in a house that was under 50 years old. Circuit breakers are what the modern U.S. uses. I don't think you can install a fuse box in a new home. I think you have to put in a breaker box.
     
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    Actually in the 60's. No one would buy a home today with a fuse box. They would demand it be upgraded.
     
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    Just_a_Citizen Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Sounds like we're brothers from other Dwellings!
     
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    50 watts can blow your ears off....No wonder people think it's actually 500 watts. I have a guitar amp that is rated at 40 watts but I bet a decibel meter would rate it at over 100 decibels at times depending on distance from amp and volume....That's enough to cause ear damage.
     
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    Good grief, do RWers really fall for these stupid articles. Do RWers know enough not to overload a circuit!!!!!

    FYI, electric vehicles are here to stay, I suggest you get used to it!!!
     
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    Ya' probably need to stroll out to your utility pole and take a gander at the high voltage side fuse. The transformer and your home is protected by a fuse.
     
    Labouroflove, Aug 21, 2017
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    Line filters are used for clean power, so the voltage is steady. Multipile batteries are generally used for backup.

    https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/83182/when-to-use-ac-line-filter
    The AC line filter can help to keep external transients and spikes on the power line from entering the product enclosure.
     
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  11. Steve N

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    50 watts can be enough with speakers of the right sensitivity, I'm talking about the kind sensitivity where 1 watt can hit 96db or more. I'm into high end audio and a lot of people say if doesn't matter how many watts you have if the first one sucks, so a lot of manufactures, well, not a lot, but enough, make high quality low powered amps, some so low that that they count a half watt as in this amp is rated a 1.5 watts.

    Here, check this out. 10 watts per channel - $25,000 in 2007 dollars. A matched pair of tubes can set you back $1500. Of course with only 10 watts one must use the kind of speakers you're referring to with your guitar amp, them things are designed to boogie.

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    https://www.dagogo.com/wavac-ec-300b-tube-amplifier-review
     
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  12. Steve N

    Steve N Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Of course we do, we're not the ones talking college courses in speaking dolphin.
     
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    PRICELESS!

    (because of the research, & the flow!)
     
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    You're calling people with fuse boxes backwaters. Apparently the Democrat controlled area of Dallas is a backwater.

    Wouldn't want to alienate people would you?
     
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    I can't remember the last house I was in that didn't have a fuse box. My parents just had a large home built in the DFW area. Has a fuse box. All the custom homes I built in the Dallas area had fuse boxes.
     
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    I can tell you with 100% certainty it doesn't have a fuse box. It has circuit breakers.
     
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    It's a fuse that can be reset instead of replaced.

    I guess it's semantics really.
     
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    It's a matter of semantics I guess. A circuit breaker is a fuse that can be reset instead of replaced. They do the exact same thing.

    Could also be a remnant of common usage with me.

    I guess I took offense to the backwaters thing lol.

    I'm just going to bow out peacefully.
     
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    RPA1 Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Sweet!! Ya I know how much some tubes cost. Those look like 'new on shelf' oldies. Are the 2 medium sized ones rectifier tubes?
     
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  21. Steve N

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    They're probably rectifier tubes, they usually are. Since I have cats I never got into tubes, but honestly, they do sound better.
     
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  22. Bluesguy

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    Is that really the best rebuttal you got?
     
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    Bluesguy Well-Known Member Donor

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    Well I can't imagine why you would miss the point of the article I posted.
     
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    By all means, just be vague about it, then.
     
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  25. Steve N

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    I agree. If a fuse blew and someone said to check the breaker I'd know what they meant.
     
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