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Article #9025Re: Can fuses get "worn out"?
From: JON HARDING
Date: Mon, 17 Dec 1990 15:26
Date: Mon, 17 Dec 1990 15:26
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In article <1990Dec14.171020.3615@phri.nyu.edu>, roy@alanine.phri.nyu.edu (Roy Smith) writes...
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> We had an air conditioning failure in our machine room a couple of
>weeks ago. Turned out to be the 1/3 HP induction motor in the blower had
>was enough to blow it completely. Is this possible? Do fuses act that way?
>--
>Roy Smith, Public Health Research Institute
>455 First Avenue, New York, NY 10016
>roy@alanine.phri.nyu.edu -OR- {att,cmcl2,rutgers,hombre}!phri!roy
>"Arcane? Did you say arcane? It wouldn't be Unix if it wasn't arcane!"
Over thew years I have replaced many (20-30) fuses which blew for no reason:
subsequent tests of quiescent and surge current were negative. It is, however,
a known phenomenon that when one part of a system is replaced, other parts may
subsequently go west ... hence the preventive maintenance practice of replacing
related parts of systems when they fail. (Within reason, of course.)
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