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I'm struggling to understand how the British grid works, as an Italian transplated to UK. IIRC in Italy most residential circuit breakers have a limit of 3.3 kW, so it's pretty easy to trip it with a few appliances running, and we don't even use electric kettles that much.

Yet in Britain, with a 3 kW kettle, I've never managed to trip it, with a combination of laundry machine, electric oven, microwave, dishwasher. Is there no circuit breaker limit?

parent sph 3 years ago

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