In message <[email protected]>, "Dav e Baxter" writes: >You could try replacing the fuse temporarily with a "suitably rated" >filament lamp.
I don't know if this was the same in other countries, but the first set of screw-in fuses approved for house installation in Denmark had the same E27 screw-socket as lightbulbs, for exactly that reason and som electicity companies delivered a 100W lightbulb attached to the fusebox with a string. The official pamphlet that came with your new electrical installation, adviced that you should always have a working 100W bulb next to your fusebox, so that when the fuse blew, you could screw in the lightbulb to find where the short were. It gave a very clear procedure, but did not actually explain how this worked, leading a lot of people to believe that the 100W bulb attached with a string was "special". Poul-Henning -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [email protected] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
