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Preventing fires, to "FUSE or Not to FUSE"?

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I had a friends BJ8 burn up in my garage due to an incorrectly installed negative ground radio in a positive ground car.....just don't do it....the old cotton wiring goes up like a match!
Scott in CA
 
DerekJ said:
Are American amps different from UK amps?!
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Same Amps, different way of looking at them.

"There are two different rating systems in common use: the European based IEC system and the US based UL (Underwriters’ Laboratories) system, which differ in terms of the ratio between the current which a fuse is rated to carry indefinitely without blowing, and the current which will cause it to blow. So a fuse with an IEC rating of 1A might have identical fusing characteristics to one with a UL rating of 1.4A."

https://www.jaycar.co.nz/images_uploaded/fuseprmr.pdf

Andy.
 
DerekJ said:
The fuse ratings are for US fuses, as the British ratings are significantly different than ours.

Are American amps different from UK amps?!
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----NO Amps is Amps--Keoke

[SIZE=+1]Lucas Fuse Rating (British)[/SIZE][SIZE=+1]BUSS AGC Equivalent (American)[/SIZE]
[SIZE=+1]50[/SIZE][SIZE=+1]30[/SIZE]
[SIZE=+1]35[/SIZE][SIZE=+1]25[/SIZE]
[SIZE=+1]30[/SIZE][SIZE=+1]20[/SIZE]
[SIZE=+1]25[/SIZE][SIZE=+1]15[/SIZE]
[SIZE=+1]20[/SIZE][SIZE=+1]10[/SIZE]
[SIZE=+1]10[/SIZE][SIZE=+1]7.5[/SIZE]
[SIZE=+1]5[/SIZE][SIZE=+1]3[/SIZE]
[SIZE=+2]Fuse Ratings Equivalents UK to US[/SIZE]
 
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