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   From: dave@davenoise.co.uk   
      
   In article ,   
      Jerry  wrote:   
   > : having fewer outlets due again to cost. Resulting in the use of   
   > extension   
   > : leads or bodged extra sockets.   
      
   > Utter rubbish, especially at the time when ring circuits first   
   > started being used in the UK, houses were being built with the   
   > same number of outlets (ask anyone who has modernised a house   
   > from the 1950s or '60s). As for bodged extra sockets, that is   
   > exactly what occurs with ring circuits, because of the over   
   > rating of the circuit protection, thus one can (and often does)   
   > find sockets added to spurs, thus over loading the conductor but   
   > not circuit protection.   
      
   Dear me. You blame a final ring circuit for its design when the problems   
   you mention are cause by idiots modifying it *from* a ring circuit?   
   It's quite simple, Jerry. Those who don't understand how things work   
   should leave well alone. And pay someone who does to do any work needed.   
      
   > Or, and this is even more dangerous,   
   > incomplete rings so that there are in effect two radial circuits   
   > with any number of outlets protected at 30A rather than the more   
   > usual 15A for a radial circuit using the same conductor size.   
      
   See above. If this is how you do wiring, find a less dangerous hobby.   
      
   > :   
   > : > There is nothing wrong with radial circuits, the only two   
   > down   
   > : > sides are amount of cabling needed and the size of the   
   > breaker   
   > : > panel - IIRC ring circuits were introduced into the UK in an   
   > : > attempt to save on cabling, due to cost. Radial circuits are   
   > : > still, to this day, permitted.   
   > :   
   > : No shit Sherlock.   
   > :   
      
   > So why did you claim otherwise, making out that radial circuits   
   > are somehow dangerous, if not an out-and-out fire risk?   
      
   You're making assumptions - yet again.   
      
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