[Mobile-Portable] Automotive Circuit Breakers VS Fuses ?

[Dick Flanagan]

Please forgive the OT message, folks, but I'm trying to help Randy 
with his e-mail formatting.

Randy, please respond to this message to the reflector, including 
this message in your response.  Let's see how your new ISP works.

Dick

At 05:22 AM 11/29/2009, C.Whitaker wrote:
 >de WB2CPN
 >Buss fuses, changed to Bussman, then to Cooper Bussman, have been
 >THE industry standard since year one.  Why do I think that?  Because
 >the the old AT&T Bell Telephone System used so many of them.  They
 >came in all physical sizes from a 30-pounder to a 3AG.  Trivia, but the
 >larger ones get old and need to be replaced, so the large power panels
 >had two fuse holders side by side.  Slide the new one into the slot,
 >operate a change-over switch, pull the old one out, and put an entry into
 >the log book and the bring-up file.  If you have one with a small hole, that
 >fuse could be filled with a white powder.  That's a slow-blow kind of
 >thing.
 >73  Clete
 >
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