Monday, Feb 07, 2011 at 17:37
Rang bloke today.
yes you are right about cable thickness rating being 7.92mm2, or as he said 8 b&s with 112 strands.
He did mention that the size of the standard fuses were to be dropped to 10amp as you said, they are too big. He did recommend to change according to your appliance if needed. I guess its hard for them to fuse a socket if they dont know what is going into it.
I also asked about the need to have so many fuses when the plugs themselves have fuses. He said that although there are many things that do have fuses in there plugs, there a many without. He said with only one master fuse, If one of these appliances without a fuse in ciggy plug malfunctions for whatever reason and blows the one fuse, then everything else is cut off from power.
Made sense to me. I would hate to be out fishing for the day to, to get back and find one of the kids has blown the fuse trying to plug in there ipod charger or whatever, and beers gone warm GRRRR!
I did however, for the exercise, go through my 12volt
camp gear to
check which plugs did have fuses. To my surprise i found a majority of the things i would use in it, have no fuses in plug including 3x Primus fluro lights, shower pump, and fridge (yeah yeah," what fridge doesnt have a fuse in plug "you ask. My repco job . Had 3 years never let me down though, works awesome at fraction of cost.)
After plenty of thought i reckon its good. I think based on my talk to bloke, it is far superior to those 3 way ciggy lighter things. Wiring wise, fusing, voltmeter.....I think i will get one.
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