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← 3.2 Equipment at Consumers intake point

The supplier cut-out

Electrical Technology · Grade 10 · about 40 minutes

The sealed KPLC cut-out fuse at the intake: what it protects, why consumers must not open it, and how it differs from the house main switch.

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Other lessons in this sub-strand

  1. Equipment at the consumer intake point
  2. The KPLC service line
  3. The supplier cut-out
  4. The energy meter
  5. The main isolation switch
  6. Main fuse and circuit breaker
  7. The consumer unit
  8. Functions of the control equipment
  9. Installing intake equipment in sequence
  10. The consumer earthing point
  11. Installing an earth electrode
  12. Why intake equipment must follow the rules