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What is the necessity of having safety switches in our homes?

 Safety switches save lives, if  they're not installed in your home, ask your friendly local electrician on Gold Coast to install them on all your circuits to safeguard your family. They’re a very inexpensive way to safeguard all your family members. A lot of homes have maybe one or two safety switches on their main power outlets. Many homeowners think because of this, they are fully protected, but every circuit needs to be protected with its own safety switch, whether it’s lighting, wall fans, heaters, your air conditioner, wired-in appliances such as electric ranges, furnaces and water heaters, because we never know when a disaster or an accident will strike, making these appliances venerable and dangerous. What is a safety switch? An RCD or Residual Current Device, commonly called a safety switch is an electrical device that cuts power off from an electrical circuit as soon as there is any electrical leakage. This happens in 0.03 seconds, so quick that it’s not long enough