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When you say "European", please also say "excepted UK" who (like usual) does things differently. E.g ring cabling.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrical_wiring_in_the_Uni...

The article doesn't talk about end-user cabling within a house or building, but about the design of the whole grid, which is similar in the UK and on mainland Europe as far as I know.

Maybe the article is trying to stay relevant in a few months :)

Last time I checked UK will still on the European continent for the foreseeable future ;)

It's always been just off the continent. I think they'd sail away if they hadn't been tethered to us by that tunnel.

Japan is also an island, but you don't see anyone trying to make the claim that it's not part of Asia. I wish people would stop conflating Europe and the EU.

From the UK, "the continent" refers very specifically to continental Europe, which means Europe without the British islands.

While Japan is an island, I would not consider it part of continental Asia, although that might be less of a common concept than continental Europe.

> When you say "European", please also say "excepted UK"

Hasn't that always been implied? IIRC, just about every story I've heard that includes both has always used some variant of "Europe and the UK" to indicate that.

It seems like the trunk primary / long secondary style is far more suited to laying out the primary in a ring-main arrangement.

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