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in a similar vein, what do you do when the cartridge fuse protecting your shower blows, completely rupturing and leaving a hole right through the fuse ?
Why you utilise that handy hole of course....
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When I was an apprentice (long time ago), the electrician I was working under accidently blew an HRC in a panel at a well known chemist stores in the city of London. As a temporary measure, as he never had a replacement at approx 16:50, he also linked the HRC out with fuse wire. Not sure what the rating was, maybe around 30 Amps or a little larger? The next day I was on my own there whilst he was at the wholesalers, when walking past the panel I noticed the outer panel covering glowing red hot! My immediate reaction was to shut the panel down clear the area and get the manager to call the fire brigade, needless to say it emptied the store. However, It was a very good lesson for me never to do this no matter how awkward the situation. Unless I see it for myself I would never have believed what effect this could have.
Why not keep a selection of hrc fuses on the van.
People keep mcb's so why not hrc if you work on panels a lot.
A lot of bms panels etc use fuses
It used to be common practise to keep spare HRC fuses in the DB/CU's. MEM CU's used to provide molded storage for spare HRC fuse cartridges...
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