The sheds don't. Try searching their websites.....The term Fusebox or Fuseboard is very widely understood by the general public, so it makes sense to use it as a generic term.
Jolly good question! Does anyone know who introduced the phrase? Was it the regs (as I said, it's certainly 'defined' in the 17th), the manufacturer's of the articles in question, or who?I've never liked the term consumer unit anyway. Why adopt a rather vague term which doesn't really describe what the article is in place of a more precise term which does?
I couldn't agree more (and note that we don't have "RCDOs"!), and there are countless others. Where on earth did 'plug top' (which fortunately seems to be dying) come from, for example?The same goes for residual-current device in place of residual-current circuit-breaker.
Was it not 'the trade' (electricians?) who brought us 'plug tops' - but not, I think, their cousins the plug sockets?From the people who brought you plug sockets?
I'm happy with 'fused spur' as the description of a part of a circuit, but I imagine you're probably talking of misuse of the term to refer to a FCU, are you?Fused Spurs?
I would certainly say so. An electrical 'spur' (fused or unfused), in the sense of a small branch (or 'protrusion) off another circuit, is fully consistent with the meaning of the word in many other fields (railways, roads, mountains, trees, bones etc. etc.). So that's what a spur (or a fused spur) is. There is no real sense I can see in which the word can relate to a connection unit - and spurs obviously do not inevitably originate from FCUs, and nor are FCUs necessarily associated with spurs.Is it a misuse?
Does anyone know who introduced the phrase? Was it the regs (as I said, it's certainly 'defined' in the 17th), the manufacturer's of the articles in question, or who?
I would certainly say so. An electrical 'spur' (fused or unfused), in the sense of a small branch (or 'protrusion) off another circuit, is fully consistent with the meaning of the word in many other fields (railways, roads, mountains, trees, bones etc. etc.).
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