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Electric Fireplace and fridge off fcu help
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<blockquote data-quote="Tony Woolf" data-source="post: 561326" data-attributes="member: 38037"><p>My quite large fridge feeezer is rated at 163 W. (Look on the rating plate for this info, the manual is unlikely to tell you.) So even with this and the 2 kW heater the total will still be well under 13 A. </p><p>So you should be OK. But it's not good to rely on the fuse for protection in this situation. The prime purpose of a 1362 fuse is not to protect against continuous overload but to blow in the event of a fault. Look at a time-current rating chart for BS1362; if you haven't done this before I think you will be surprised at how much current a "13 A" fuse will carry for a very long time without blowing.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Tony Woolf, post: 561326, member: 38037"] My quite large fridge feeezer is rated at 163 W. (Look on the rating plate for this info, the manual is unlikely to tell you.) So even with this and the 2 kW heater the total will still be well under 13 A. So you should be OK. But it's not good to rely on the fuse for protection in this situation. The prime purpose of a 1362 fuse is not to protect against continuous overload but to blow in the event of a fault. Look at a time-current rating chart for BS1362; if you haven't done this before I think you will be surprised at how much current a "13 A" fuse will carry for a very long time without blowing. [/QUOTE]
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