[Milsurplus] Fuses to protect transformers
Richard Brunner
brunneraa1p at comcast.net
Mon Mar 17 20:35:55 EDT 2014
No advantage that I can see. I would put the fuse in the hot leg, because
if it's in the neutral leg and blows the hot wire is still live in the
chassis. Fuses are pretty reliable, and the worst thing that can happen is
it fails open. I don't think much thought was given to the dual fuse plug.
Richard, AA1P
> Maybe I missed this but is there any advantage to fusing both sides of the
> primary? I remember the famous Heathkit plugs with twin fuses. Was the
> redundancy there for a reason?
> Doug
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