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A residual-current device (RCD), residual-current circuit breaker (RCCB) or ground fault circuit interrupter (GFCI) [a] is an electrical safety device that interrupts an electrical circuit when the current passing through a conductor is not equal and opposite in both directions, therefore indicating leakage current to ground or current flowing to another powered conductor.
Its main retail brands are B&Q, Castorama, Brico Dépôt and Screwfix. [28] The companies now part of the Kingfisher group are: B&Q; operations in the United Kingdom and Ireland; Brico Dépôt; in France, Spain, Portugal and Romania; Castorama; in France and Poland; Koçtaş; 50% joint venture in Turkey; Screwfix; in the United Kingdom and Ireland
Screwfix Direct Limited, trading as Screwfix, is a retailer of trade tools, accessories and hardware products based in the United Kingdom. [6] Founded in 1979 as the Woodscrew Supply Company, the company was acquired in July 1999 by Kingfisher plc , which also owns B&Q , and is listed on the London Stock Exchange .
A distribution board (also known as panelboard, circuit breaker panel, breaker panel, electric panel, fuse box or DB box) is a component of an electricity supply system that divides an electrical power feed into subsidiary circuits while providing a protective fuse or circuit breaker for each circuit in a common enclosure.
A Leyden jar (or Leiden jar, or archaically, Kleistian jar) is an electrical component that stores a high-voltage electric charge (from an external source) between electrical conductors on the inside and outside of a glass jar.
Bond's father was a plumber and his mother a nurse. He was born in Grantham, and attended The King's School, Grantham and gained four A levels. He received a first-class BEng Hons in Gas Engineering from the University of Salford in 1987 as part of a British Gas plc scholarship spending a year on the job in the gas industry.
Dickinson finished third behind Frenchman Pierre Lewden in the high jump event at the 1923 AAA Championships. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ] At the 1924 Olympic Games, Dickinson competed in the men's high jump .
Robert J. McNulty and George Handgis founded the chain as a warehouse club called the HomeClub, opening the first two stores in Norwalk and Fountain Valley, California, in 1983.