On Fri, 2 Feb 2018 14:04:22 -0000, Terry Casey
wrote:

In article ,
says...

Someone suggested earlier that a 100W lamp could be wired
across the open ends.

That seemed a far more practical solution.


Yes - a lamp limiter - common practice for enthusiasts
renovating old radios and TVs - especially TVs.

They usually have a bulb and bulbholder mounted on their work
bench in series with the mains supply with a bypass switch to
short out the lamp when they are satisfied that no damage will
result.

I'm glad you said enthusiast!

In my dim and distant, working as a TV Engineer, another fuse went in
first.

Some of those spring type antisurges had an impressive delay time, far
longer than the regulator, feed rectifiers and printed circuit track.

:-)

AB