Fuses
- Dr Bunsen Honeydew
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Re: Fuses
Sorry it is complete nonsense, there is so much safety redundancy built into a modern mains system due to the intelligent consumer units now used. The UK 13amp plug for a start was designed after the war so we could use less copper in house wiring by adopting a ring system, which was a crap decision that haunts us now in house fires and bad hi-fi. So removing the fuse from that is basically meaningless apart from making up marginally for our bloody awfull mains distribution system. For example, the fuse is supposed to protect the cable, yes necessary when cables were rubber insulated with what is basically braided fabric around the outside. Modern cables are flame proof and if they overheat due to over current then they will trip the consumer unit long before the cable even get hot enough to give you a blister let alone flame. The *ONLY* reason you should not remove that fuse is because the thieving bloody insurance companies will use it as an *excuse* not to pay out.
Then we have the case fuse in the amplifier. If that is there it should never be removed as it protects you from an internal short that puts potential on the case. The answer, use double insulated regs in your design and then a case fuse is unnecessary, as with nva products, and in fact cannot be used as the fuse casing is single insulated by its very nature therefore nullifying class two regs.
Then we have speaker line fuses, could anything be designed more successfully to f-up the music. Spend a fortune on high va power supplies, high current output devices to have the whole benefit nullified by a couple of 3 amp glass fuse - bloody daft.
I do wish people would spout from a position of knowledge and not just trot out what they have read being written by idiots - especially at wigwam.
Then we have the case fuse in the amplifier. If that is there it should never be removed as it protects you from an internal short that puts potential on the case. The answer, use double insulated regs in your design and then a case fuse is unnecessary, as with nva products, and in fact cannot be used as the fuse casing is single insulated by its very nature therefore nullifying class two regs.
Then we have speaker line fuses, could anything be designed more successfully to f-up the music. Spend a fortune on high va power supplies, high current output devices to have the whole benefit nullified by a couple of 3 amp glass fuse - bloody daft.
I do wish people would spout from a position of knowledge and not just trot out what they have read being written by idiots - especially at wigwam.
- Dr Bunsen Honeydew
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Re: Fuses
On wigwam the management have banned any discussion of fuses or mains electrical wiring, and if anyone talks about removing or changing fuses they are immediately banned.
Re: Fuses
Dr Bunsen Honeydew wrote:.... I do wish people would spout from a position of knowledge and not just trot out what they have read being written by idiots - especially at wigwam.
yup, you can get a permanent ban from the Wigwam for suggesting you bypass fuses.
And yes, that's where my "knowledge" came from! :?
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Re: Fuses
Someone seems to have convinced the owner at wigwam that as publisher of such a post he could be liable in any law suit emerging from a house fire in one of his members houses who followed the advice in any post about mains thingies.
Where as I don't have to rely on stupid paranoid advice, as I happen to know something about the subject.
Where as I don't have to rely on stupid paranoid advice, as I happen to know something about the subject.