People still use fuse boxes?
Nov. 22nd, 2014 07:23 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sawylI'm not quite sure who set up the distribution cupboard in our place but whoever it was, they clearly weren't a neatness freak: it's so jumbled and untidy that it's hard to trace from the meter to the night-time clock to the fusebox — because we still use them — and on from each fuse to the individual circuit it controls.
Since everything but the lighting circuit and what I suspect must be the instant hot water is on a 30A fuse, my back of an envelope calculations, in combination with today's blow-out, lead me to suspect that the shower needs to be on a 45A circuit to run at full power. I the original shower, gone long since, must have been under 7KW whereas the newer one is around 9KW but I'm confident it's still on the same wiring, so I really need to get it checked to see whether it's rated for the higher current or whether that path leads to incineration and death...
Since everything but the lighting circuit and what I suspect must be the instant hot water is on a 30A fuse, my back of an envelope calculations, in combination with today's blow-out, lead me to suspect that the shower needs to be on a 45A circuit to run at full power. I the original shower, gone long since, must have been under 7KW whereas the newer one is around 9KW but I'm confident it's still on the same wiring, so I really need to get it checked to see whether it's rated for the higher current or whether that path leads to incineration and death...
