TV Pickup (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TV_pickup https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TV_pickup) also leads to the political issue where one of the drivers of Brexit

TV Pickup (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TV_pickup https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TV_pickup) also leads to the political issue where one of the drivers of Brexit was that the 'EU' wanted to 'take away' traditional kettles because there was a proposal to embed a warm up cycle of a few seconds into the heating element so it didn't have spiky power consumption which caused very large amounts of simultaneous draw. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WCAzalhldg8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WCAzalhldg8