Thread: Power breaker - solve an argument please!
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Old 28-04-2008, 15:28   #20
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Re: Power breaker - solve an argument please!
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Originally Posted by greencreeper View Post
Me as a teenager, happily cutting my grandad's hedge when the hedge trimmers just stopped. Completely dead. Odd. Checked the plug - still firmly in. Consumer unit - no tripped switch. Hmmm. Changed the fuse in the plug - still nothing. Resigned myself to a new pair of hedge trimmers. Started to tidy away the cable when I found these bare wires - as if someone had caught the cable in a pair of hedge trimmers and not realised

So - safety starts with the individual. I never touch hedge trimmers now.
These things are additional protection, not a failsafe. I cut through the hedgetrimmer cable once. Slice sufficiently clean and quick that it did not trip the the house RCD or the one on the wall socket. Be careful.
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