[Heathkit] DX-100 fuse = ?

[rbethman]

Glen & Rick,

I have the Heathkit Master Parts List(s).

If some one can give me the Heath Part Number, I can look it up.

I could possibly make it available, but it is going to be pieces, with 
Volume I being over 3MB in size.

Bob - N0DGN

On 12/23/2011 11:03 AM, Glen Zook wrote:
> If you haven't already done so, please remove the old suicide plug with the 2-fuses and replace with a 3-wire cord with a single fuse in the black lead.
>
> As far as I can find, the original DX-100 manual doesn't list the fuse although I may just be overlooking the notation.  Instead, again, as far as I can find,  it just lists the fuse plug.  Since I don't have a DX-100B, I don't know about the manual for that transmitter.
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> The truth be known, since it has been over 50-years since I owned my original DX-100, I am not absolutely sure, but, I don't remember the fuses being slow-blow.  I do know that the fuse in my present DX-100 is a "normal", fast blow, fuse and I haven't had any problems.
>   
> Glen, K9STH
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> Website:  http://k9sth.com
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> ________________________________
>   From: Rick Poole<wa1rkt at arrl.net>
> To: heathkit at mailman.qth.net
> Sent: Friday, December 23, 2011 8:58 AM
> Subject: [Heathkit] DX-100 fuse = ?
>
>
> Is the DX-100 fuse supposed to be a slow-blow?
>
> The manual just says 8 amp 3AG but when I looked up "3AG" on Google,
> the info returned was that the 3AG is a fast-blow.  That's not what I
> remember from "back in the day".
>
> The one I pulled out (after blowing it during my oh-so-skilled
> attempts at repair) is a 7 amp slow-blow.
>
> Rick WA1RKT
>