Originally published at: http://boingboing.net/2016/08/29/a-big-ol-box-of-assorted-aut.html
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Ugh. I had an intermittent short in the wiring harness tucked into my sporty’s headlight bucket. Chased that for weeks.
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…unless your DeLorean needs a fuse.
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A multimeter with a continuity test is your friend.
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Slow news day?
“Son,” my father said, after taking me by the shoulder, "all a man really needs is a big box of assorted automotive blade fuses."
After I finished considering his statement, I looked around and realised that he’d abandoned me in the forest.
Lesson learned.
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Very true; though better labelling and documentation would be really welcome. Particularly for fuses in places you wouldn’t necessarily expect(sometimes a necessary evil; but if the fuse isn’t in the fuse panel it’d be nice to mention it); or for those horrible fuses that look exactly like every other surface mount passive. Grovelling through every tiny rectangle on a PCB with fine tipped probes because somebody didn’t feel like distinguishing the resistors from the suicide resistors is very annoying.
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Did he at least leave the box of fuses with you?
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Three fuses of each amperage should be enough. If you blow three fuses in a row, then you need to fix the gizmo, not install yet another fuse that’s doomed to blow.
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…insert a penny.
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A man after my own trailer-park heart!
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I’d like to stab the guy at Honda who decided soldering in blade-type fuses was a great idea.
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That will solve the problem of blowing fuses by turning the gizmo into a big fuse.
Stand back!
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Are you sure that the device didn’t self-solder the fuse into place as part of the failure mode (to try to prevent additional tampering)?
Reminds me of a Father’s Day card I gave my dad years ago – on the front it went “Remember how when I was young we would go on these long drives into the countryside?” and in the inside “And how surprised you always were when I found my way home anyway?”
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Yup.
Wow, they must have gotten there quick. Those things burn flat to the ground in seconds.
I concur with the sentiment; but tradition demands that heretics be burned. Soldering a deliberately sacrificial part that is designed to be socketed is a blatant transgression against all laws of god, man, and nature.
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