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by quickthrower2 2195 days ago
I'll stick to RCD trip off switches :-)
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Whats that?
Residual Current Device - a circuit breaker that opens a circuit when too much current is not returned via neutral, implying leakage to earth. They “trip” too and with the similarity to LSD, a TLA ending in D! I couldn’t resist the joke.