SINCE Those Get Ruined with a Few Nanoseconds of Overcurrent.

  

  

  Electrolytic and Tantalum Capacitors, Which Can Fail in a Short-Circuit.

  Inside the transistor or ic. Then your misbehaving circuit will just get hot, inskead of blowing up. After you get thinkings working, you can then design in a fuse.

  The need for a fuse

  fire.

  Pick the fuse package

  , Surface-Mount Fuses Are I IDEAL (Fig. 3).

  OFENTIMES, You Simply Need to look at similarrrrrrrlets to your and see what kind of fuse they used. As my menter user, "it not copying.

  Evaluate The Fuse Speed

  YET A Fast-Blow May be subbed to nuisance failure, due to momentary overload.

  

  Size the fuse

  to the exten from from the high-voltage linear transformer.

  fuses.

  Department Grabs your prototype office off the bench and takes it to a show. Thirty Years Later, I still resent having to remove the pcb-mount fuse clips.

  . It saved about $ 10,000 in installation costs and made the cuscomers quite happy.

  For the lowEer load. The breaker (or freecting the house party friend fire. The 2-a product should have left circuit protering for fire and shorts.

  

  Try A Slow-Blow Fuse to get Past Some Inrush Current Problem, While Still Protecting Your Circuit from Fire.

  Conclusion