[Milsurplus] [ARC5] Followup: HV Fuse in BC-375

[w7ksg at q.com]

For all of your hard work you have no protection to your circuits.  You might not have had any problems so far but it is going to end up biting  you in the rear end.  Go to the Littlefuse or any other fuse web site and look at their fuse specs.  When you place a 250V fuse in a HV line you have absolutely no protection.  The fuse is designed to MELT the fuse element.  When the fuse
is subjected to a HV the fuse element ionizes and that ionized gas is conductive which means that whatever you are trying to protect is destroyed. You are spending twenty five cents to
protect a several hundred or more piece of equipment. It just doesn't make any sense.

So your anology of

LookFineLassaLongTime
PaintItGrayandDon'tMessWidIt

might mean

What protected me didn't cost a dime
Should have listened to them all but didn't have the time.

J
W7KSG