Looks good. Copper casing conducts well
I always thought there was an easier to hook up to a busbar. Just need a little duct tape, a hammer and a screwdriver and you can fix the world
Looks good. Copper casing conducts well
Clearly, the purple wire just isn't very color coordinated, clashing with the other colors. And the white wire should be melted to match the fuse it is connected to.@Will Prowse Looks like you'll need to start making Primitive Pete videos in your DIY Site
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... and, apparently, a couple of .22's Kinda redefines the meaning of a "blown fuse." Yeee-ikes.I always thought there was an easier to hook up to a busbar. Just need a little duct tape, a hammer and a screwdriver and you can fix the world
That screwdriver is the wrong gauge.
At least the chrome vanadium fuses make good contact!
That is incredible…What does that red light on my ground mean?
Lafayette Wow! you have been around for a long time too.I remember back in the old days when a fuse would blow in a Linear Power Supply we would wrap the original fuse in Tin Foil and stick it back in. It use to take weeks to get a replacement if the Radioshack or Lafayette did not have the right one.
I know the pain my friendOk, so I have a really embarrassing but true story, that is at least tangentially related to this thread.
In the late 1980's I was a software / hardware engineer for a defense contractor. We had a piece of equipment in a secure / classified location that had failed to do it's job. I flew out there, messed with it a while, and figured out what likely was wrong. I flew back to my home base and excitedly explained it all to my boss. He gave me the OK to change the firmware, burn a new EPROM, and hand carry it back out to the facility and install it.
For those too young to know, EPROM stands for Erasable Programmable Read Only Memory. These were the chips with a little glass window in the top. You could shine a bright UV light on the little glass window, and it would erase the contents of the chip so you could program it again. It was good for those of us who didn't get things right the first time.
I did all the right things. I wrote up the design changes to the firmware, had a senior engineer approve the changes, burned an EPROM, and tested it on the breadboard version of the device we had in the lab. Everything worked spectacularly. I went through security to package up the EPROM to be hand-carried into the facility, and made my travel plans.
The day came. I flew out carrying the package like it was going to save the world. I went through the hour long process of being allowed to bring it into the facility. A local engineer had been assigned to help me with the update to the EPROM. She watched me and asked questions all along the way. I powered down the system, took out the old EPROM, and inserted the new EPROM. Then I went to the console and was ready for the moment of truth. I told her to flip on the power, but nothing came up on the console. I asked her if it looked like the power was indeed on. She said "well, the light is on in that chip you put in". Panic hit me: The glass window of the EPROM was not where light should be coming from. I knew right away what happened. I had plugged the chip in backwards, and the "light" was the reverse polarity power burning up the chip.
So my entire trip - my tickets, my time through the airports, my rental car, my hours with security, my hotel room - was all a complete waste because I plugged the chip in backwards.
Well not that long LOL. Lafayette was the coolest store in America, it had everything electronic.Lafayette Wow! you have been around for a long time too.
So my entire trip - my tickets, my time through the airports, my rental car, my hours with security, my hotel room - was all a complete waste because I plugged the chip in backwards.
@Will Prowse Looks like you'll need to start making Primitive Pete videos in your DIY Site
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