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Offline danj

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Here's why we fuse
« on: November 20, 2015, 09:26:20 PM »
One of my strips was blowing fuses, so I checked resistance across the power leads and compared to a strip that was not blowing fuses.   This strip measured 41 ohms versus 1.9k ohms for the good strip.   Took the heat shrink off and found that the pos & neg leads were becoming "one"--I had gotten overzealous with the heat gun when putting the bigger heat shrink over all the leads.   Checked resistance again after re-heat shrinking--this one now about 2k ohms--similar to the good strip.  Powered it up and all is good.   Figured I would share yet another "why we fuse" story,,,

Posted PDF of the pic.  Sorry not real clear; took it with my phone...
« Last Edit: November 21, 2015, 10:15:29 AM by danj »