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>--- wb5150@earthlink.net wrote: >> My EDP has inexplicably blown two fuses in the past >> week. Has anyone >> else suffered through this dilemma? If so, were >> there strange causal >> factors involved? Also, which intoxicants seemed to >> work best during the >> downtime? >I took a fuse out of another working echoplex (factory >original fuse), put it in the offending echoplex, and >no problem, the fuse did not blow. I put a >replacement fuse in the good edp, and the replacement >would blow just like in the other edp. I could not see >any difference in the factory original fuse that >worked and my replacement fuses that blew quickly. > >I measured the current draw from the edp that first >blew the fuse, and my other 2 edp, and saw no >difference in current draw. > >In desparation I installed a slightly larger fuse >(kids don't try this at home). It worked then, and >has worked fine for months now. > >My only guess is that the edp is drawing surge current >(on power up) very close to the original fuses limits, >and that the 1/4 amp replacements I bought were on the >low end of the distribution (of current req'd to blow >the fuse). about every transformer driven machine draws more at power up. "slow blow" fuses are made for this. Did you get those or the quick ones? ---> http://Matthias.Grob.org