> Van: Paul BRITTON <Paul.BRITTON@MMSUK.CO.UK>
> Aan: PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU
> Onderwerp: Re: [ot] International Power
> Datum: vrijdag 21 augustus 1998 11:56
>
> Some time back I worked for a telecomms test equipment manufacturer, and
> they double fused (live & neutral) every thing *BUT* any thing that was
> sold to British Telecom had to have the neutral fuse removed (and linked
> directly)....something to do with making sure the equipment wasn't still
> live if only the neutral fuse failed I think.

It's an error punishable by death (electricity does not forgive mistakes)
to switch the ground-line only (by single-phase switch or fuse).  Only when
the Phase(s) is(are) disconnected a Nutral-line could (but mostly should
not) be disconnected.

Nothing is as dangerous as a device that apears to be off, but is connected
to the life-wire everywhere.  Here (in the netherlands) it's illegal also
to switch the nutral-line other than together with the life-wire.

Greetz,
  Rudy Wieser