FYI: In Australia, fuses are not installed in plugs.

I remember some early PCs (AT vintage) that had fuses in them. I know - cause I blew one once...

Standard 240/250V circuits here are 8 amp light - 15 amp power - inistalled at the mains box. Portable plugin powerboard that come with circuit breakers have 10 amp ones - many early model and cheaper ones have no circuit breakers.

Indeed there is some good arguments for not having them in every powerboard, especially if you have to plug in more than one in series to get enough sockets to run the PC setup, what with lots of little plug adaptors for all sort of optional extras, speakers, printers, monitors, external dialup modems, external HDs, routers, broadband network adaptors, etc. PC cases have stopped including a plug to piggy back the monitor into now too.

Further, the normal powerboards have the sockets too close, and many low voltage plugpacks are too wide, so you can't fit in more than 2 on a 4 point or 3 on a 6 position powerboard anyway, and then you can't fit in any other normal width plugs either!

Robin