Oh go on! This is Shadow and he loves a belly rub.

So much for his BBC boycott then!

Urine trouble with them then...

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Found ya!

And how many of them voted for Brexit, opening the door to adding inheritance tax... (Under EU rules, they were protected from IHT as long as the farm was productive).

Of course, this is for domestics. Industrial costs to uprate from single to three phase is pretty expensive - plus you are billed for both actual power and also for apparent power. This helps to keep the power factor in check and therefore making distribution cheaper.

Must admit It's a bit of an alien concept to most (not all) of the UK to have to pay to have your service uprated outside of the south-east. Most of our distribution network operators will uprate for no cost if they deem it necessary as you're already paying per unit & you'll use a lot more units!

I think industrial settings are now starting to use arc fault detection but it's definitely not (yet) a domestic thing.

Worst arc faults we see here are usually in the isolators used for large devices like electric showers - and 99% of the time the arc fault will quickly arc it's way to ground or go open circuit. The current drawn by the arc itself (being a negative resistance) takes the breaker out in seconds.

They've not proliferated the UK yet but I agree, I have mixed feelings about arc fault breakers. On a 120v system I can see the benefit (as a loose plug or wire could arc silently and cause a fire). On a 240v circuit (not two phase - single only!) an arc usually grows so quickly that it pops the bkr

Top tip btw - if you visit DON'T run an extension from your neighbours as, being on a different phase means you can accidentally end up with a potential difference of about 400v *lol*

Over here, three phase is quite easy* to implement as a row of houses will see each house serviced by a different phase and all phases are in the ground outside - and it's becoming more common to see domestic three phase.

*Easy as in digging up the entire street.

Whereas Class D is for larger stuff, so eg, a cooker is on a 32A radial but can happily run at 32-35A for several hours without the breaker opening. However, if the cable is in a wall, the allowed max load is smaller (Class C 30A continuous), surface mounted can be 32A class D. We over engineer here