[Vwdiesel] Fuse sources

Bart Wineland bwinelan at allegheny.edu
Tue Dec 28 13:18:33 EST 2004



What use a real fuse or circuit breaker when we have all these perfectly 
good beer cans, strands of copper wire, cigarette/gum wrappers, aluminum 
house siding, wine bottle cap wrappers, milk bottle foil etc.  You must be 
kidding :)

Bart

At 08:23 AM 12/28/2004 -0800, Roger Brown wrote:
>Mark Shepherd wrote:
> >
> > I've used strands of copper from 1mm cable and foil from
> > milk bottle caps. I'll se if I can dig out some formulae for
> > wire cross sections for a few diff metals but best way is a
> > destructive test. Maybe cut a strip and then reduce it until
> > it blows then double it ??? Hagar ..or is it Sven ;o) you
> > have an ammeter that big? or do it for one GP and
> > multiply...
>
>You could also use a circuit breaker or a standard off-the-shelf 50A fuse 
>and holder to replace the factory one.
>
>--
>    Roger
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