...and out went all the lights!

[venta]

I just lifted the iron down from the shelf, and found its base was covered in rust. I cleaned it off with a brillo pad, but fear I might have got some water in the works because plugging it in shorted out the power for the entire house. Twice.

hendybear, maybe we shouldn't have used the iron to defrost the freezer after all.

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[venta.livejournal.com]

I thought we had dried it off!

Wouldn't an iron need more than a 5A fuse ? Also, we have the popping kind of fuse in our house, so blowing isn't so serious!

[undyingking.livejournal.com]

5A is plenty, it would be a pretty exciting kind of iron which was more than 1200W. (Quick search turns up this in support.)

Glad to hear you didn't have to fiddle around with fuse wire, at least!