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A feature which cuts out an electrical supply to cabled equipment, such as electric garden mowers, to help protect the user from an electrical shock and also to reduce or prevent damage to an electric motor. When mowing a lawn, or using other cabled equipment such as a hedge trimmer, it is essential that an RCD is used as cables can be accidentally cut whilst using such equipment.