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wrote:

If it is a fuse, why would they put one in a simple nicad battery
pack
for a cordless phone?

You've never seen a guy put a nicad battery pack into his pocket along
with loose change and some keys, I take it :-). NiCads are very
capable of getting very hot when shorted out.

Yeah - I get it. It just seems like that would be a very hard thing to
short out, considering how the pack is put together. Like I said, FWIW,
this is the only cordless phone nicad pack I've ever seen it in. So
far... 8-)

From your description as a cylindrical package it sounds like that may
be a Bel MQ or MS style package (page 1123 in current Digikey catalog.)

Tim.

Hi Tim

I don't have a DigiKey any more. But I take it then that it a fuse? If
it is, I can get a pico fuse with the same ratings elsewhere.

Thanks

Rick