'Tis the season to be jolly so I'm not going to sound off for hours but..... I bought an extension lead in Playero supermarket Sosua. It was pretty substantial looking with moulded plugs on either end - orange in colour. I bought it to run the iron which typically came with a one foot long flex! It worked for about a day and then stopped working. I thought this a bit strange but kept the lead anyway because I thought I might find a use for the flex for something else one day.
Christmas Decoration day - in fact. The usual handfull of wires, bulbs, plugs and so forth; of course none of them working, or they needed to go miles away from the nearest plug etc. Finally, I thought, a chance to use that old external orange flex that I had kept. I chopped the plug off one end and discovered pretty quickly the reason why it had stopped working. It is supposed to be three core cable and looks pretty much up to the job but a stanley knife through it immediately revealed that the cables are in fact about as robust (and as thick) as telephone wire. They had melted!
So, before any of you burn your house down with some dodgy Christmas wiring, please test to see if the cable is up to the job or remember to switch the lights off if you go out.
- You know it makes sense
Simon
Christmas Decoration day - in fact. The usual handfull of wires, bulbs, plugs and so forth; of course none of them working, or they needed to go miles away from the nearest plug etc. Finally, I thought, a chance to use that old external orange flex that I had kept. I chopped the plug off one end and discovered pretty quickly the reason why it had stopped working. It is supposed to be three core cable and looks pretty much up to the job but a stanley knife through it immediately revealed that the cables are in fact about as robust (and as thick) as telephone wire. They had melted!
So, before any of you burn your house down with some dodgy Christmas wiring, please test to see if the cable is up to the job or remember to switch the lights off if you go out.
- You know it makes sense
Simon