In comparision: in Germany we had wet room sockets with a spring-loaded cover in the past. In newly built houses: regular sockets and switches, even near sinks.
In comparision: in Germany we had wet room sockets with a spring-loaded cover in the past. In newly built houses: regular sockets and switches, even near sinks.
In all new houses, for a few years now, we've had electrical sockets near sinks in both bathrooms and kitchens but they all have ground fault detectors built-in that turn the power off if a problem occurs. All outside circuits have them as well, but like kitchens and bathroom one ground fault detector can cover more than a few actual outlets and finding where the tripped breaker is can be a pain in the butt!! ie one of mine tripped from the Christmas lights and the rest was outside on the opposite side of the house!!
All outside circuits have them as well, but like kitchens and bathroom one ground fault detector can cover more than a few actual outlets and finding where the tripped breaker is can be a pain in the butt!! ie one of mine tripped from the Christmas lights and the rest was outside on the opposite side of the house!!
Yes indeed. I created a fault while testing a purge pump in a bucket and tripped the GFI serving a socket outside the house. I had no idea, and thought that a particle detector which got power from the same circuit had failed and bought another. Of course the next did not work there either and after looking for and failing to find the GFI I gave up and power the particle detector from another socket. Well over a year later I realized that the GFI on a bathroom socket on the opposite side of the house was tripped (I pretty nearly never plug things in there, so had not noticed). That turned out to be the offending tripped one, so I have power on that outside socket again.
Some of the wiring in my house is downright whimsical. There is a kitchen circuit with two GFIs on it. Puzzling, that one.
All outside circuits have them as well, but like kitchens and bathroom one ground fault detector can cover more than a few actual outlets and finding where the tripped breaker is can be a pain in the butt!! ie one of mine tripped from the Christmas lights and the rest was outside on the opposite side of the house!!
Yes indeed. I created a fault while testing a purge pump in a bucket and tripped the GFI serving a socket outside the house. I had no idea, and thought that a particle detector which got power from the same circuit had failed and bought another. Of course the next did not work there either and after looking for and failing to find the GFI I gave up and power the particle detector from another socket. Well over a year later I realized that the GFI on a bathroom socket on the opposite side of the house was tripped (I pretty nearly never plug things in there, so had not noticed). That turned out to be the offending tripped one, so I have power on that outside socket again.
Some of the wiring in my house is downright whimsical. There is a kitchen circuit with two GFIs on it. Puzzling, that one.
My kitchen has 2 gfi's as well makes no sense given the size or my kitchen
The imperial units begin to reconquer the continent. In the last decade you can only buy kitchen measuring cups here, where in addition to scales for eights, quarters, or half a liter and milliliters, there are also scales for "cups" and "fl ozs" (whatever that means) printed on the scale. It's outrageous. I haven't checked the kitchen utilities in French supermarkets but I fear, it's the same situation there.
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the word was flat and I added pack because that's what Linux is switching to for it's apps and upgrades, flatpacks
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Electrical bathroom sockets, still a serious matter in the UK, which is why there are hardly any in bathrooms anywhere, as some people joke. It's a "special location", i.e. regulation, bureaucracy, rules & standards... https://electrical.theiet.org/bs-7671/building-regulations/part-p-england-and-wales/
In comparision: in Germany we had wet room sockets with a spring-loaded cover in the past. In newly built houses: regular sockets and switches, even near sinks.
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In all new houses, for a few years now, we've had electrical sockets near sinks in both bathrooms and kitchens but they all have ground fault detectors built-in that turn the power off if a problem occurs. All outside circuits have them as well, but like kitchens and bathroom one ground fault detector can cover more than a few actual outlets and finding where the tripped breaker is can be a pain in the butt!! ie one of mine tripped from the Christmas lights and the rest was outside on the opposite side of the house!!
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Yes indeed. I created a fault while testing a purge pump in a bucket and tripped the GFI serving a socket outside the house. I had no idea, and thought that a particle detector which got power from the same circuit had failed and bought another. Of course the next did not work there either and after looking for and failing to find the GFI I gave up and power the particle detector from another socket. Well over a year later I realized that the GFI on a bathroom socket on the opposite side of the house was tripped (I pretty nearly never plug things in there, so had not noticed). That turned out to be the offending tripped one, so I have power on that outside socket again.
Some of the wiring in my house is downright whimsical. There is a kitchen circuit with two GFIs on it. Puzzling, that one.
archae86 wrote: mikey
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My kitchen has 2 gfi's as well makes no sense given the size or my kitchen
The imperial units begin to
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The imperial units begin to reconquer the continent. In the last decade you can only buy kitchen measuring cups here, where in addition to scales for eights, quarters, or half a liter and milliliters, there are also scales for "cups" and "fl ozs" (whatever that means) printed on the scale. It's outrageous. I haven't checked the kitchen utilities in French supermarkets but I fear, it's the same situation there.