Keep some water in your electric kettle
By shelagh77
@shelagh77 (3643)
March 5, 2007 10:40pm CST
My neighbour recently called me up to her flat because she had fused her electrics and needed me to reset the fuse box for her.
She had switched on the electric kettle but it was empty, thus it fused the whole flat.
Incidentally, if you do have an appliance which fuses, UNPLUG it before you reset the fuse box, or the box will keep tripping out. I found out this fact after I had been up and down a step ladder half a dozen times, no joke when you have one leg which does not do as it is told!
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@Lakota12 (42600)
• United States
6 Mar 07
I can just picture you up and down up and down that ladder be fore you decided that the appliance needed to be turned off lol
and I am so glad my junction box is on the back of my house and where I can get to it. also they should have the right post to go with the apt. house what ever was this a double pole or single pole breaker?
they might want to upgrade to double pole to take care of the over load
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@shelagh77 (3643)
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11 Mar 07
Oh Lakota, you got me on the technicalities there! It is a fuse box with about 5 different rings so that if the lights fuse the sockets don't, and the cooker is on a different one etc. When she fused the kettle she managed to trip out the whole darned flat!
Whenever she has a problem Muggins ends up helping out even though I am the sick one lololol.
@gabs8513 (48686)
• United Kingdom
6 Mar 07
So you put yourself at Risk, even I haven't tried to boil a Kettle without Water. I just do not believe you are going up and down on a Step Ladder. Well then you probably won't believe what I did last night I guess. But stop going on Step ladders.
@shelagh77 (3643)
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11 Mar 07
Actually I have never forgotten to put water in the kettle either, which with my scatterbrain is rather remarkable.
Yes, I was exhausted by the efforts on the step ladder and when I found out WHY the thing kept tripping out I was speechless, which is just as well as something rather snappy might have been said!
@shelagh77 (3643)
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11 Mar 07
You are very lucky you do not have a huge bill for replacement kettles. I wonder what it would take to train him to leave a little water in there?
@kathy77 (7486)
• Australia
6 Mar 07
Oh dear of course everyone should know if they have anything electrical done that you must unplug the electricity and turn it off it is very dangerous when you have to fix something to do with electricity. Plus I always make sure before I turn on the kettle on which is electrical that I make sure there is water in the kettle.
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@shelagh77 (3643)
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11 Mar 07
When a fuse is reset at the box I am not in contact with electricity, any repairs would naturally be done away from the socket. I was in the cupboard, merrily resetting and having the thing out and didn't realise that she had not unplugged it.
If she had not tried to boil the thing without water it would never have fused.
She is always doing things like that!
