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How to set up a 5AMP circuit breaker with clips so I quit wasting fuses?

By dnhayden

12 years ago



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#1 12 years ago

My Baywatch upper GI circuit keeps blowing out the 5AMP fuse on the PPB (F1 fuse). I thought I had the problem solved about a week ago because the fuse would hold and the lights worked for a few days of playing. Long story short, the fuse started blowing again after a few non-related repairs were done. I read an older thread “HELP!....MAJOR PROBLEM... SEGA FRANKENSTEIN.”, where brokedad mentioned that he used, “an assortment of micro breakers with clips for troubleshooting.”
Since I can’t ask him about the "micro breakers", has anybody else done something similar to this when trying to track down problems in their machines? I went through my last three 5AMP fuses yesterday and then called it quits.

#2 12 years ago

If I were doing this, I'd take a blown fuse (I'm sure you have a few right?), solder wires onto each end (carefully, and on the same side, so it fits into fuse slot) and then run those wires to a 5 amp mini circuit breaker...

#4 12 years ago

Would something like this work?

Yep!

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#5 12 years ago

^^^^^^^^ SWEET!!!! Time to make an order I guess. I wish somebody would have recomended making something like this when I first started working on my machine.

#6 12 years ago

My god those breakers are cheap! Why the hell are we using $1-a-pop fuses when we could be using $2.25 breakers?

#7 12 years ago
Quoted from DrAzzy:

My god those breakers are cheap! Why the hell are we using $1-a-pop fuses when we could be using $2.25 breakers?

I feel ya!

#8 12 years ago
Quoted from DrAzzy:

My god those breakers are cheap! Why the hell are we using $1-a-pop fuses when we could be using $2.25 breakers?

If they only also came in 2, 2.5, 4, 6, 7, 8, amp versions!

#9 12 years ago

That's bad ass. Thanks for posting those

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