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On 31 Mar 2001, at 23:01, Mark Healey wrote: > On Fri, 30 Mar 2001 10:50:46 -0800, Fuhriman, Mark wrote: > > >> I > >> >wonder if you got some kind of voltage spike that fried your... I can't imagine a situation that would fry 4 fuses. Fuses are not blown by voltage spikes, but rather by current spikes. In most cases you would need an extremely high voltage (manbe 20 V) to force enough current flow thru a circuit to blow out a fuse. Such a voltage really can't happen as long as the battery is there, because it serves to regulate the voltage. This is much more likely to be the result of a short somewhere, but I don't understand how a short could blow out more than one fuse unless someone had really screwed up the circuits and put them all in parallel with their load sides connected together. Which fuses were they? Are you sure they were okay before this problem happened, or could they have been simply broken in the course of taking them out to inspect them? - Jim Adney, Associate Researcher Plasma Physics Group, Department of Physics University of Wisconsin Madison, Wisconsin, USA 608-262-4643 ------------------------------------------------------------------- Search old messages on the Web! Visit http://www.vwtype3.org/list/