"The Great Debate" - Plug Top or just Plug?

[Dave OCD]

And how many table lamps actually use old GLS filament lamps these days, very few I'd suggest. All the table lamp manufacturers who fit 3 amp fuses during manufacture can't be very bright either I suppose ?

 

[Dustydazzler]

Only ever use 13a and 5a fuses in plug tops

 

[telectrix]

With incandescent lights a 3 amp fuse will often blow when the bulb fails, a 5amp one won't.

But the fuse is to protect the cable not the lamp on the end of it.

As you say: some Electricians aren't very bright.

what about the lamps/bulbs along the circuit, not at the end? don't they require protection also?

 

[telectrix]

Only ever use 13a and 5a fuses in plug tops

both at the same time? piggybacked? and what fuses do you fit in plug bottoms

 

[DPG]

what about the lamps/bulbs along the circuit, not at the end? don't they require protection also?

Don't wind him up Tel. That's my job

 

[ferg]

The 3a fuse is a habit from pat testing where rewirable plug tops on items <700w should have 3a fuses. Anything else 13a.

Although a 750w led bulb in the table light would make me a very bright electrician indeed.
It would certainly make it easier to see while I'm terminating my satellite cable.

 

[littlespark]

Some electricians are not very bright, are they?

There’s no need to get personal.
It’s simply a difference of opinion. I’m not saying what’s right or what’s wrong.... just what I call it.

 

[GeorgeCooke]

And how many table lamps actually use old GLS filament lamps these days, very few I'd suggest. All the table lamp manufacturers who fit 3 amp fuses during manufacture can't be very bright either I suppose ?

Not many I agree. You are right about manufacturers. Most don't know the fuse is to protect the cable not the lamp on the end of it.

 

[GeorgeCooke]

Only ever use 13a and 5a fuses in plug tops

How? There is nowhere to put a fuse in the top.

 

[GeorgeCooke]

what about the lamps/bulbs along the circuit, not at the end? don't they require protection also?

Bulbs have built in protection. Most of the rest of the world don't have fuses in plugs and don't come to harm.