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Offline capt bullshot

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Re: Portable induction hob
« Reply #25 on: September 16, 2018, 05:35:08 pm »
Showing my ignorance here, but wouldn't a 5 X 20mm do the job, as long as the pigtails are long enough to go through the board?
Yes, that would do the job also.  The 6x32mm fuses may have somewhat higher voltage and interrupted current capabilities, but that won't matter here. Many European appliances use the 5x20mm fuses, as they are more common here.
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Re: Portable induction hob
« Reply #26 on: September 16, 2018, 07:22:30 pm »
Yes, a 5x20mm would work also if you can't get the longer ones.  They just don't interrupt as well at high currents but with these induction cooking devices when they fail short (the usual failure mode, just like yours) it usually blows everything upstream (like yours did) anyway and since it is ceramic, it won't usually physically blow up. 

(Not that a bit of broken glass from a glass fuse exploding inside the unit is usually a huge deal, though sometimes pieces of glass might fly out of a vent hole or something, plus the glass ones make a bright blue spark at high currents which can freak some people out.  :) )

Just don't bypass it with a piece of wire.  Use a decent fuse.  :)
 


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