I have gone through more kettles than i care to mention. they either wont boil by clicking off too early, or just die or wont turn off, or even switch on whenever they feel like it.
my latest kettle is 4 weeks old, when one week old it would not boil, so we took it back to technopolis, who tested it on their electrics and guess what it worked fine.
our friend, who is an electrian came down to check our electrics, which were fine. so carried on trying to use our irratic new kettle. three weeks later, whenever you put this kettle on it blows the whole electrics, everything off.
our electrician friend came down, tried the kettle in every plug inside and outside the house and the kettle blew the electrics everytime.
this pointed to the rcd box, the residual current device, the trip box. this kettle trips the box everytime it is used. our friend took the kettle to his home and it works fine, because he does not have a rcd box.
As the rcd is a safety feature i am not keen to remove it, but that means i cannot have a kettle because the rcd detects it as being unsafe. how do i explain to technopolis that they need to sell kettles that are rcd approved.
so here i am boiling water in a pan for my beloved cup of coffee.
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