Recent content by mr.si

Wow, I subscribed to this post but didn't get any notifications. Maybe my email address has wrongly been entered... Anyway, I'm glad to see I have caused a debate (in a way). I don't want to seem dumb and maybe I should have thought more about the kWh calcs before I posted my question, so...

1 circuit. So long as Earth Leakage doesn't mount up! That's the rating of the existing where they want to put them on, but I just wanted to be sure. Start-up surge would also be useful to know - can be up to 10x can't it sometimes?

I'm trying to design a circuit for 3 standard domestic under-counter fridges but for the life of me, I cannot find the current draw of any of them. Tried even sites like Currys in case it's in their specs, but they only seem to show annual power consumption which isn't helpful. I've checked my...

Just tried signing up myself from a Windows machine - doesn't work! Is is a browser thing and only works with Internet Exploder I wonder... Edit... yes, IE only. :(

Hi all, I came across this site whilst googling for some more understandable descriptions of IR Testing for circuits protected behind an RCD and found the best description ever on here! (Was always confused about what the best way to disconnect circuit from RCD so that it didn't give a false...