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Re: Brit Fuses ??

To: <spridgets@autox.team.net>
Subject: Re: Brit Fuses ??
Date: Wed, 18 May 2005 10:34:59 -0400
I'm not sitting anywhere near my Midget at the moment, but I had a fuse in my 
hand last night, and ( from my poor memory ) there was a paper in the tube that 
said '17 amp' while elsewhere it said 30 or 35 amp.
 
> From: "Mark" <mini@nashvilletn.org>
>
> Dave is right, an AMP is an AMP no matter where you are.  I think the 
> confusion comes from the AMP rating of fuses.  I believe that the Brits 
> rated fuses with a different "blow" rating. ( I will get in trouble for that 
> phrase)  A Brit fuse with a 25 AMP rating might blow at 25% over it's 
> current rating and a US fuse might blow at 10% over it's current rating. 
> Something like that anyway.  I just stick a 35 Amp fuse in place of the 25 
> and have never let the smoke out of the wires.
> 
> Mark





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