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Look up info on cartridge fuses for portable appliances (ie 13amp plug fuses), and the downgrading of circuit breakers to the point where modern one are more useless than a fuse.
IEEE wiring 16th(?) regs were dumbed down to match EU rules and regs back in the late 80s/early 90s (?), but at the same time, a few stricter German electrical regs were added to consumer electrical rules (and nearly killed off the banana plug for HiFi use).
(?) It was a long time ago, and I cannot remember the exact year the revised regs came out.
I was thinking of something specific when I said French, but now I cant for the life of me remember what it was.
Then there is the stupid CE mark, which is completely worthless, yet replaces most BSI Kite marks as the "legal standard".
I left the trade a while back, and didnt keep any of the reference/regs books.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
