[Boatanchors] OT: Fuse replacement?

[manualman at juno.com]

When I worked at Lafayette Radio back in the "good old days", I remember
several customers who, when the line fuse blew, replaced it with a larger
value and then when that blew, replaced it with a larger value, etc.
until the fuse stopped blowing. Then they brought it in for repair with
the problem description, "equipment smoked".

Pete, wa2cwa

> Subject: [Boatanchors] OT: Fuse replacement?
> 
> 
> > Warning - this is OT!
> >
> > I am repairing a circuit board from an oven (one of these high 
> tech
> > thingies). The company wants $400 to replace the board. But it 
> looks like
> > only 1 fuse blew. Yes, it might have blown for good reasons, but I 
> thought
> > Id first just try to replace it. It is soldered onto the board. 
> These are
> > the markings on it:
> >
> > 250V   6/10A
> >
> > Could this mean that for 250V it will blow at 6A but at 125V it 
> will blow 
> > at
> > 10A? (ie blows at 1,250W?)
> >
> > The only replacement I could find in mouser says this:
> >
> > 125V   6A
> >
> > Does this sound like a replacement? Could it be under rated? I 
> don't mind 
> > it
> > being a little underrated, I would just rather not put in 
> something
> > overrated.
> > Thoughts?
> >
> > 73 Eugene W2HX