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Old 3rd Jul 2019, 3:06 pm   #59
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Default Re: 13 amp fuse for 1.5mm mains flex?

A couple of additional perils from the East are: 1. The occasional wrongly marked flex which purports to have safe CSA for the use in question, but in fact has much thinner conductors. 2. Copper plated Aluminium conductors. Identified under examination by bending individual strands. Copper ones bend, Aluminium ones try to spring back. Dubious results are confirmed by putting the strands in a flame. (Aluminium disappears.)

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