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PL1:

--- Quote from: pbj on October 27, 2014, 01:34:30 pm ---A fuse offers no protection in a situation like that, thanks for playing though.

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I didn't say that BadMouth had a fuse problem there.

He used an old power cord -- it could have happened to any of us.


--- Quote from: PL1 on October 27, 2014, 01:08:16 pm ---Nobody around here has ever had a wiring problem that resulted in . . .

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People who are foolish enough to wrap fuses in foil will often do a poor job on wiring, resulting in a high-resistance connection which can easily lead to an electrical fire.


Scott

pbj:

--- Quote from: JDFan on October 27, 2014, 01:40:01 pm ---HAte to agree with pbj

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There are people on this forum absolutely gagging to catch me in any kind of mistake.  Which I make plenty and readily admit to.  It's gone on for so long for some of them it's borderline pathological.


--- Quote from: PL1 on October 27, 2014, 02:34:14 pm ---People who are foolish enough to wrap fuses in foil will often do a poor job on wiring

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Whatever you say.

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IAmDotorg:

--- Quote from: Louis Tully on October 27, 2014, 03:22:38 am --- Takes a bit for delivery though.

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That's what I used, too. FWIW, there are lots of Amazon vendors with them, including at least one Prime vendor (which means Amazon is actually doing the fulfilment). If you have Prime, you could have it free on Wednesday, or for under $10 shipped, tomorrow.

Sarver Systems:
The ones with mounting ears are a slightly different dimension than the ones without ears, so be careful of that too.

SavannahLion:

--- Quote from: JDFan on October 27, 2014, 01:40:01 pm ---
--- Quote from: pbj on October 27, 2014, 01:34:30 pm ---A fuse offers no protection in a situation like that, thanks for playing though.

 :cheers:

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HAte to agree with pbj and personally I wouldn't recommend using foil for a fuse --but in this case the OP mentioned running the electric from the wall outlet (which is probably already on a breaker circuit) to a Smart switch (which most likely has overload protection build in ) and then having the internals for the arcade plugged into the smart switch - So the fuse inside the power switch attachment is pretty much just redundant anyway !

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The problem I have with PBJ's comment is the fact that someone, somewhere, is bound to be stupid enough to actually think that it's OK to replace the fuse with tinfoil in any circumstance. You got Joe Schmuck who follows one forum post to use a power outlet inside the cab, then wires it according to yet another forum post, then sees PBJ here suggesting tin foil to replace a fuse.

Guess who looks bad? Numbnuts there gets away with being an ass and this forum looks like a bunch of ---smurfing--- monkeys.

This has absolutely nothing to do with me or anyone else, "absolutely gagging," to catch PBJ in a mistake. I'd call out Ond or ThisOldMan if they made that kind of suggestion. If a person doesn't want a fuse in that part of the circuit, they can buy the fuseless version of it. The onus is on them if they do that, not anyone here.

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