Ceramic fuses

Lol, Ricey. This forum can be a wealth of information, but you'll have to put up with some of the members' idiosyncrasies.

 

Also, I live in Australia, and let me tell you, Vegemite is better on toast

Of course it is what else would we put it on, the yanks use it as axle grease I heard, they have no idea.

Like I said ricey OP , no difference between Gold and Rhodium plating on fuses, as the thousands of components (resistors transistors capacitors diode etc etc) in your equipment, have (nickel plated) steel legs, so are the fuse holders and the IEC mains socket and plugs.

Actually it’s better if the ends of a fuse are made out of plane nickel plated steel, just like the fuse holders themselves are.
As dissimilar metals with current running through them causes corrosion to occur and will carbon up at the contact points very quickly.

Cheers George

Gday George, not sure why, but what you said about different types of metals reacting, seems to make sense.. Dont know why. 
Vegemite is also good on Salada Biscuits.. 
Cheers Ricey

Vegemite is also good on Salada Biscuits..

Yes but you feel like a cockatoo eating them. Toast is for me.

not sure why, but what you said about different types of metals reacting, seems to make sense.. Dont know why.

Google dissimilar metals with current running through them, especially if in damp salty air environments, should have learnt about this in school science??

Cheers George

Gotta love the fairy tales that Georgie thinks up: makers of fuses taking into consideration that some dolt is going to play their stereo at the salt water’s edge so they devised poorly conductive metals to circumvent said conditions.

All the best,
Nonoise