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Andy Burns[_13_] Andy Burns[_13_] is offline
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Default In-line fuse holders - do they meet the regs?

Brian Gaff wrote:

Has anyone ever opened up a wall wart recently? Time was when there used to
be a fuse or at the very least a temp sensor in the transformer to stop it
all bursting into flames.


Many of the cheapo PSUs just use a low value resistor as the first
component from the live terminal as a fuse now...