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Old 18th Dec 2018, 1:02 pm   #1
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Does anybody know what this is?

I found it in my front garden this morning. Obviously it's a fuse, but I've never seen one like this before. The fuse is soldered into the holder, so I can't take it out to examine it.

Goodness knows how it ended up in my garden.
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Old 18th Dec 2018, 1:12 pm   #2
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I'm guessing it's from some form of external lighting power as that seems to be Lucy's business, a lot of the power posts near bus shelters and road sign lighting seem to have their branding.
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Old 18th Dec 2018, 1:18 pm   #3
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The fuse is probably one with tags fixed on the ends. Try undoing the 2 obvious screws and it may well come out for replacement.
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Old 18th Dec 2018, 1:25 pm   #4
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Have they been fixing/changing streetlights round your way? It looks like it may be a fuse/isolator link out of the bottom of a streetlamp.

25A is the max capacity of the holder, the fuse ought to be somewhat less.

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Old 18th Dec 2018, 1:39 pm   #5
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It's part of a street lamp isolator.
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Old 18th Dec 2018, 2:14 pm   #6
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Thanks for all your replies.

I haven't noticed any street lamp maintenance, but how kind of whoever it was to sling it in my garden! It was right near the house - a good twenty feet from the pavement.

There are no obvious screws, unfortunately. The fuse is firmly welded into the carrier!
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What are the two screws for then?

https://www.tradekitdirect.ie/produc...tml?filter_set[]=43,44,45

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Old 18th Dec 2018, 2:52 pm   #8
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Oh! How daft am I?

I need to put my glasses on!
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If it's been as windy round your way as it has been a bit further north up here, that may explain how it reached your front garden rather than having been deposited there by human hand.
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Lucy's was a big ironworks on the canal just outside the centre of Oxford. They made all kinds of street furniture, fuseboxes etc. All flats now, but I think the company lives on elsewhere.
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Old 18th Dec 2018, 5:31 pm   #11
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I hadn't even noticed the screws! I was too engrossed looking at the fuse.

I do have a street light directly outside my house, and yes, it was windy this morning, but it's fairly heavy - I can't imagine that it was blown all the way across the garden!

I notice it says 2.5 watts, which would seem to tie in with the street lamp theory. They were changed to LED in September 2014.

It wasn't there last night at 11 pm, but was there at 10:00 this morning. Very strange.
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Magpie.

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Old 18th Dec 2018, 7:06 pm   #13
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I don't think a magpie can have dropped it, Lawrence, but thankyou for the thought.
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Is there a street lamp that is not working anywhere close by?
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Old 18th Dec 2018, 7:25 pm   #15
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No, all the street lights are working fine.

I'm guessing a lamp post engineer who was feeling a bit cheesed off just lobbed it over the hedge, maybe?

I can't imagine that someone purposely walked up my driveway and placed it there. Why would they?
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Maybe the beautiful cat in your avatar has starting bringing home useful items rather than dismantled rodents.
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Perhaps it is a detonator from a professional tape bomb
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Old 18th Dec 2018, 7:46 pm   #18
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Tony Duell - I like your way of thinking! But Miss Bluebell didn't drag this home. She was in all night, asleep with me in bed.

She is gorgeous, isn't she? Totally blue fur all over. She's beautiful and I love her!
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2.6W puzzles me a bit. It wouldn't be the actual power consumption of a LED lamp.
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We had a lamp outside our house long ago with the usual photocell switch on top. When they came to replace the bulb, they put a temporary cover over the cell to shut the power off.
On 2 occasions the cover finished up in our garden and the council had to ask for it back!
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