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So done with audiophile fuses

The journey started with a medium priced ($50) fuse in my power supply.  A failed rectifier tube blew that one out.  Not a fuse problem.  Next up was a blue fuse in my pre amp.  It blew and was not caused by a pre amp problem.  Apparently they sometimes are more sensitive and it was replaced by an orange fuse two values higher.  Things were going along fine.  I replaced the pre amp with a newer version of the pre amp and it has the same fuse value.  Five months latter (today) I turn on the pre amp and nothing.  it's a five month old pre amp so I suspected that it was the fuse.  Sure enough, I replaced it with a ceramic Littelfuse of the lower correct value it works fine.  No more wasting my money on unstable fuses for me.     
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cd318
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For over 30 years I’ve stuck to plain 13amp fuses and cannot remember even one ever blowing.

In fact our circuit breaker hardly ever had any issues over the years until we had an electric cooker (gas hob) installed.


All of a sudden it’s become a lot more common for the fuse to trip.

We should have stuck to all gas.
cd318
2,636 posts
 
@edgewound,
"How many more will deleted because it fails to fit the shill narrative."



They don’t want a narrative, they want to preserve lazy astronomical profits.


What does a £50 fuse cost to make?

How is it better than a standard one?

Is there ANY electrical measument to confirm ANY superiority?

I thought not.
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