On Thu, 6 Jun 1996 BLECKSTEIN@SHELL.MONMOUTH.COM wrote:
> On Thu, 6 Jun 1996, DGeis@aol.com wrote:
> >No guarantee that this is right, but in my TD has what appears to be an
> >original 50 amp fuse is between A1 and A2, and a newer American style 30 amp
> >fuse is between A3 and A4.
> >For some reason I remember being told that both original fuses were lucus 50
> amp, but this was the same as American 25 amp. It makes no sense why the
>British
> fuse was double the Amp for the same load.
>
> Mike Leckstein
>
Aha! You may well be on to something. If british amps are half as big as
american amps, then of course the british fuses would have to be able to
carry twice as many amps.
And this would, of course, explain problems with aged Lucas components:
they were designed for imperial amps, and when you push big american amps
through them, of course they fail.
Another mystery solved.
Ray Gibbons Dept. of Molecular Physiology & Biophysics
Univ. of Vermont College of Medicine, Burlington, VT
gibbons@northpole.med.uvm.edu (802) 656-8910
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