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Re:Why Does A Good Kettle Cost $90+? by DaveLond on Monday January 20, 2014 @04:01AM (#7088334)
Errr, short-circuiting to ground will cause a RCD to trip immediately - that's what they're there for. You will generally have one RCD on the entire fuse board, and then individual circuit breakers for each branch.
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Re:Why Does A Good Kettle Cost $90+? by ars on Monday January 20, 2014 @04:35AM (#7088500)
If that's really how they do that - one RCD for a bunch of circuits then I have to retract my words, a ground fault would cause a whole bunch of circuits to lose power.

It seems crazy to me, but if they do that, then they do that.

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