On Mon, 26 Jan 2015 18:45:28 +0100, Johnny Billquist wrote: sometimes happens that you blow a local fuse at home, but it's uncommon [...] The main fuses in my house are 32A for each phase. I could upgrade, but Real fuses? Here they are almost fully disappeared. Maybe there is something in factories and such, but nothing more in private homes. Automatic circuit breakers, both magnetic-thermal and differential, are the norm (I think there is a law too that requires their use), so when you exceed your allowed power consumption it's just a matter of going downstairs and switch back on your home circuit (if you live in a building with many apartments, switches must be reachable from outside your home, so they are almost always located near the main entrance, next to mail boxes). The "bad" new thing is that ancient switches where somewhat forgiving of short spikes in consumption, but now that there are digital meters connected to the switches, there is a strict 120 second grace period, and after that the meter commands the circuit breaker to trip... And here you go in the dark. :P There is also a "nice" LCD display that tells you that you were left in the dark because you were using more power than what your contract allowed. :P G.