Humming?

[Brad Little]

 

[GAD]

OMG I love that.

 

[fronobulax]

And funnier than "Because they don't know the words."

 

[Brad Little]

And in a slightly related veer:

 

[GAD]

That must be an old one. Where are you going to find a pull-tab today!

 

[Brad Little]

That must be an old one. Where are you going to find a pull-tab today!

I thought it was a bottle opener!

 

[Nuuska]

I thought, too - a bottle opener. But what about the one bottom left? Is it a piece of soft cheese wrapped in tinfoil?

Whatever - but that picture would make more sense if the ratings were divided by 10

 

[Brad Little]

I thought, too - a bottle opener. But what about the one bottom left? Is it a piece of soft cheese wrapped in tinfoil?

Whatever - but that picture would make more sense if the ratings were divided by 10

Maybe if the cheese had been refrigerated it would be a way to quickly soften it to room temperature!

 

[GAD]

That's a wedge of Laughing Cow soft cheese!



The numbers are representative of common fuse ratings in the US I believe. Then again the last time Isaw actual fuses in a house or building was probably the '70s.

 

[Nuuska]

US voltage is 110V - EU 220V - that means the current for same power is 2xEU-current.
120 vs 240 - 0r 115 vs 230 - same difference.

Our most common household fuses are 10A and 16A - my house runs on 3-phase system - like any other place here - and the main fuses are 3x35A

16A x 220V provides 3,5kW power - that is enough for running a heater for a fairly large room - if insulation is appropriate.

Fuses in range 100A and up are common in heavy industry - never at any household.

Therefore my suggestion of scaling the picture by 10 - after all this writing I'm ready to reduce it to 1/100 - more realistic.

 

[Okko]

I thought, too - a bottle opener. But what about the one bottom left? Is it a piece of soft cheese wrapped in tinfoil?

Whatever - but that picture would make more sense if the ratings were divided by 10

The left bottom item is a famous French “la vache qui rit” cheese piece. We buy those boxes always on our holidays in France… however, never used them as fuse… should have thought about that earlier….

 

[Okko]

US voltage is 110V - EU 220V - that means the current for same power is 2xEU-current.
120 vs 240 - 0r 115 vs 230 - same difference.

Our most common household fuses are 10A and 16A - my house runs on 3-phase system - like any other place here - and the main fuses are 3x35A

16A x 220V provides 3,5kW power - that is enough for running a heater for a fairly large room - if insulation is appropriate.

Fuses in range 100A and up are common in heavy industry - never at any household.

Therefore my suggestion of scaling the picture by 10 - after all this writing I'm ready to reduce it to 1/100 - more realistic.

these are stil in our infra cupboard, but all the fuses are automatic….

 

[Nuuska]

My house originals are like those. Whenever I do some upgrades - I use the new resettables.

 

[chazmo]

I love the "Laughing Cow" cheese wedge. That's too funny!!!!!

 

[GAD]

I don't know what I was thinking saying those fuses were household values. Holy crap - most houses here in the US don't have more than 200A service!

 

[gjmalcyon]

And back when when were men and women were women and pennies were copper, there was this fuse:



When one of these blew:

 

[dreadnut]

That penny is way too new for that purpose!

 

[chazmo]

dread, FYI:

The last mostly-copper cents (95% copper metal composition) were produced by the Denver Mint on October 22, 1982.