On Tue, 2007-01-23 at 23:29 +1100, Tony Smith wrote: > > Quite frankly there is more danger of water getting into this > > outlet than getting into a light switch in the bathroom. > > > > >In Italy, recently (<15 years) there's the use to split > > Mains into 2-3 > > >or more zones, each one with a Breaker. Say: bedroom, bathroom and > > >kitchen, else, and so on. > > > > I just cannot get used to the ring main system in the > > UK. having grown up with star wiring in NZ, where the > > standard practice was to have adjacent rooms on different > > lighting circuits, so if the fuse blew you at least had some > > spill over light from an adjacent room to find your way to a torch. > > Instead in the UK the whole house blacks out .... > > > Australia has all lights (& the occasional fan) run off a single circuit. > Easy to spot, it's the 8 amp one. One out, all out, comrades. The rest of > the house gets split into a few zones. Sheds and such usually get a > 'common' circuit for both lights & power. I don't know about it being code, but in the 18year old house I have, for all the rooms (AFAIK) the lighting circuit is separate from the "outlet" circuit (for that room, the outlet circuit in one room may be the same as the "lighting" circuit in an adjacent room). This is really nice since if one breaker blows you still have a way to get light in that room to figure out what's going on. The only exception to this is the garage, it's on one circuit, and GFCI'd to boot, so if anything causes the breaker or GFCI to trip, the whole garage is plunged into darkness, and that GDO obviously doesn't work anymore... :( TTYL -- http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist