>
> Sounds like my house.  The fuesbox is so full of wires that the previous
> owner seems to have simply chosen the fuse with the least wires in it when
> adding circuits! So my basement sockets are on the same fuse as my upstairs
> ring main, but basement lights are wired into the ground floor lighting
> fuse.  At least the lights weren't wired into the cooker fuse I suppose...


Do you have problems with light bulbs having short lives?

I finally understood the cause of that..
When you have a 220 feed to the house (here in the US)  It's a center-tapped
transformer.
So if the load isn't balanced more or less, then you end up having higher
voltage on one side than the other, and the side with the lighter load blows
bulbs faster.

What we have here, is I think six houses from one transformer, so it's not
just my load, but all the loads.
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