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  1. 10-06-2006, 12:32 AM #31
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    Quote Originally Posted by rossco View Post
    view first unread seems to work for me...
    If you'd clicked it before you'd read this post, it wouldn't have brought you to it.



    Umm.


    It''s kinda difficult to explain.


    In the morning, I can click it in the 20p thread and it will take me to the right place. However, after people post in it, the view first unread button takes me to the same place all day (the first unread post it took me to initially).


    Edit: It worked perfectly like a week ago - and for ages previous to that, so see what altered, maybe?

    Edit2: I bet RealitY broke it
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  3. 10-06-2006, 05:27 AM Lounge   -   #32
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    Quote Originally Posted by rossco View Post
    It doesn't matter how many amps the panel is because it won't affect how many will go through you the second it touches you... (takes a second to trip).
    But did you actually touch both 347volt phases or just 1 of them (a 600volt service is 2 347volt phases right?)
    It doesn't "trip" at all. They were fused at 800A so a load that would exceed that would "break" the circuit. I can assure you that my touching it didn't create enough of a load to "trip" anything.

    I did touch 2 of the live lines (no neutral) and did so for quite a bit longer than a second. There definitely was power going through me. I could feel it!
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  5. 10-06-2006, 08:56 AM Lounge   -   #33
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    Quote Originally Posted by rossco View Post
    It doesn't matter how many amps the panel is because it won't affect how many will go through you the second it touches you... (takes a second to trip).
    But did you actually touch both 347volt phases or just 1 of them (a 600volt service is 2 347volt phases right?)

    Quote Originally Posted by manker View Post
    The standard current in the UK is 240 volts. I've got a few shocks before and it hurts a bit, but nothing like as bad as a kick to the bollocks.
    Don't kow if you know the answer to this but i'm sure someone does...

    In US/canadia our power has 2 120volt phases and a neutral wire. Our outlets each have 1 120volt phase at them and a neutral, meaning plugs are 120volt.
    At dryer and stove plugs and in air conditioners and baseboard heaters, the 2 120volt phases are brought together (without neutral) to make 240volt (still have the neutral there in stove and dryer for lights/electronics but that's besides the point).

    So how does that work in england then? Are there 2 120volt wires at every plug or just a 240volt and a neutral?
    And do you also have 480volt for stoves,etc. or everything jst uses the 240 or what?
    As far as I know everything is 240 Volts.

    You usually have different circuits for the cooker, any immersion heater, the lighting, and the sockets. Sometimes, there are different circuits for upstairs and downstairs lights, and more than one ring main circuit (sockets).

    These are all fused at what's called a "consumer unit". (fusebox!) Modern ones use micro-circuit breakers instead of fuses. Cooker circuit has a 30 amp fuse. Immersion heater circuit has a 15 amp fuse. Lighting circuits have a 5 amp fuse. Ring main circuits have a 30 amp fuse I think?
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  7. 10-06-2006, 12:12 PM Lounge   -   #34
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    my house is a cunt, when a light bulb blows so do the rest of the lights in the upper east wing.
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  9. 10-06-2006, 12:14 PM Lounge   -   #35
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    That must be a fairly frequent occurrence too, with there being about 60 bulbs on each chandelier
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  11. 10-07-2006, 12:33 AM Lounge   -   #36
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    bulbs on a chandelier? are you having a laugh, only tinkers have bulbs, crystal biatch.
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