On Wednesday, 3 January 2018 01:38:39 UTC, Bill Wright wrote:
On 03/01/2018 00:46, tabbypurr wrote:

But any mains fuse below 3A does fail in time.

Not when the load is constant and small. I fitted 2A or 3A fuses at
every one of the thousands of TV distribution head-ends and repeaters I
built between 1975 and 2015 and there was no problem with spurious fuse
breaks.

Bill

I fitted many 2A fuse years ago with tiny loads and many eventually failed. But not thousands. Perhaps they weren't as good quality as they appeared.


NT