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   From: tony@bancom.co.uk   
      
   In article , Dave   
   Liquorice  scribeth thus   
   >On Tue, 31 Jan 2012 15:32:50 -0500, Michael A. Terrell wrote:   
   >   
   >>> Just counted up how many double 13A sockets we've just put into   
   >the   
   >>> refurbished *half* of this place: 38. That makes for one helluva   
   >fuse   
   >>> board if each was a radial... They are split over four rings as it   
   >>> is.   
   >>   
   >> Are you really that stupid, or do you just play a fool on Usenet?   
   >> The US National Electrical Code is online.  It goes into great detail   
   >> about what can and can not be done.  Read it, and see if you can learn   
   >> anything.   
   >   
   >Can't be arsed to read the regs of a forgien country, we have enough   
   >of our own. You are over there and presumably know them so how many   
   >breakers would be required for 38 double sockets in the US?   
   >   
      
   Anyone here ever known of a problem or fire with a UK ring main other   
   then stupid people doing really stupid things like they could do on ANY   
   system?..   
      
   I've never come across one ever in the last 50 odd years...   
   --   
   Tony Sayer   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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