mm wrote in
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What difference does it make? Did you get the point that you can kill
yourself even when it is unplugged?


I can kill myself getting out of the bathtub, but that doesn't mean I
won't take a shower.

OK, it's less likely, but did you ask how to avoid it?


If I ask a question about fuses on Usenet, getting the wrong answer
probably won't matter. I'm not about to trust information I get from
Usenet about how to avoid death, so why bother asking?

Puzzled the OP didn't ask the original 'fuse' question on an
'Electronics/scientific' repair group!


This group deals with home repair, which I thought was more
appropriate
than theoretical electronics. Also, my question wasn't specifically
about repairing electronics. I just wanted some information on fuses.

You can describe a fuse in a sentence or two. Where it is used does
make a difference in what there is to say about this.


I wasn't interested in how the fuse was used. I was interested in what
"5MF" meant. That would be the same for all applications.

And this group had ten times the number of posts as the other groups,
and I wanted a quick answer.

Who says the electronics group is only theoretical. The one I read is
not. And they do know more about electronics repair than the people
here.

I wasn't interested in electronics repair. I just wanted to know what
"5MF" meant. And I wanted a quick answer. This group had much more
frequest posts than the others.

(no offense, guys. They know more than I do, too.) It would
have been a better group for this question. Far more likely to know
what 5MF means, because there are so many more people there who deal
with glass fuses.


I didn't need more people. I just needed one.

Be careful! Hope the OP gets lucky with just replacing the fuse. But
as with anything fuses are there for reasons; which include
protection
of human health, safety and property!

I replaced the fuse, and ran it a few hours last night, and about four
hours today. No problems so far.

That's good. That might be the only problem.

Remove NOPSAM to email me. Please let
me know if you have posted also.