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Originally Posted by Philip Fisher
...You can draw 20amps indefinitely through a 13amp fuse and it wont blow. In fact I am going to suggest this is exactly what happened here. The charging box faulted and was drawing enough current to melt the plug and socket but not enough to blow the fuse. Scary.
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You might be interested in the following video, John Ward has a You Tube channel and explains many electrical terms. He suggests that a 13-Amp fuse will likely fail at 1.6 to 2.0 times rating, in the video he shows a 13-amp fuse running at 13-amps for ten minutes and gets to about 90 degrees Celcius -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IHA-WQEmsRE
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