XPost: uk.tech.broadcast, uk.tech.digital-tv, uk.rec.audio   
   XPost: sci.electronics.repair   
   From: mapson.scarts@btinternet.INVALID   
      
   "Eiron"  wrote in message   
   news:9mfp00F9mbU1@mid.individual.net...   
   : On 03/01/2012 00:50, rrusston@hotmail.com wrote:   
   : >   The British electrical standards are the dumbest on planet,   
   or at   
   : > least the dumbest I have ever run into.   
   :   
   : From what I've seen, they are the best and safest standards of   
   any country.   
   : Just ask any toddler who has tried to poke a screwdriver into   
   an outlet.   
      
   A toddler in the UK "Yeah! This game of sticking things in to   
   these plastic shapes in the wall is fun, lets do it again!"   
      
   A toddler in the USA (120v) "That tingles, not sure that I like   
   that..."   
      
   A toddler in the EU (240v) *flash, bang, wallop* "That hurt   
   daddy, why is my finger throbbing, why has the TV (or what ever   
   else is on the circuit) stopped working?"   
      
   :   
   : What's your problem with it? And how many of your American   
   plugs are   
   : hanging out of the socket with exposed pins and intermittent   
   connections?   
   :   
      
   Indeed, the North America attitude to electrical hardware is a   
   farce (only of the reasons why they are still plagued by high   
   numbers of electrical fires), but then so is the UK's BS* 1363   
   standard for plug/sockets, only in the UK -and those countries   
   that have copied the UK- is the final circuit protection so   
   designed that it is easy (for the end user) to defeat it either   
   through ignorance or wilful tampering, thus a device requiring   
   protection at 3 or 5 amps co so easily end up being actually   
   protected at 13 amps - or 30 amps in the case of wilful   
   tampering...   
   --   
   Regards, Jerry.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)