Phil Allison wrote:
Cydrome Leader wrote:


My question is why is on the output of the transformer. Is the input
fused at all?


** The two on/off switch incorporate circuit breakers, but the trannys are very large and the low voltage windings need protecting against an overload or short that would not trip the breakers.

I've been thinking about this and can only conclude the fusible links are
to protect against further damage from someobdy recycling the input
breaker on a permanent fault. It doesn't really explain what the breaker
is protecting against though. You could continue to flip the
breaker/switch if the primary winding have a fault or short of some type.
Is this device graceful enough to just trip the breaker instead of burning
up in the case of an overload?

It's just a power amp so it's not like it needs to continue to run a
cooling fan or something like that in case of other failures in the
system.

Strange.