Todays Puzzler.The mystery of electricity

[Jim Wilkins]

When did 3AG fuses become AGC? Serious question...

3AG is one of several sizes within the AGC classification.
http://www.jaycar.com.au/images_uploaded/fuseprmr.pdf

jsw

 

[Jim Wilkins]

Also check the new fuse before putting it back in. I have seen lots
of new fuses that are bad. I opened a new box that had about a
dozen high dollar fuses (something like 100 amp bolt in fuses) and
over half of them were open.

But sir, the production test station showed they were good, when I
pushed the red button the meter stopped at 100A just like it's
supposed to!

jsw

 

[j]

3AG is one of several sizes within the AGC classification.
http://www.jaycar.com.au/images_uploaded/fuseprmr.pdf

Never knew that. The "AG" originally stood for "Automotive glass"
whether in 3AG 1 or AGC 1.

In fact the 3AG is the old commercial designation (and old military) and
the AGC is the new commercial:

http://www.tpub.com/neets/book3/8e.htm

The fuse definitions are identical in this case: a "3AG 1" is an "AGC 1"

At any rate we are unlikely to see these fuses in modern equipment as
automotive is all spades and most home electronics is the smaller GMA.

Jeff

 

[Jim Wilkins]

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At any rate we are unlikely to see these fuses in modern equipment
as automotive is all spades and most home electronics is the smaller
GMA.

Jeff

My most recent home entertainment electronics purchase was a
1971-style HP RF Spectrum Analyzer.

BTW, the VLC player v2.0.1 has a .wtv codec and can now play back HDTV
recorded with 7 Media Center on an XP machine.

jsw

 

[Mho]

I use xbmc, free and it plays everything without any codec or what-not
add-ons needed.

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"Jim Wilkins" wrote in message
My most recent home entertainment electronics purchase was a
1971-style HP RF Spectrum Analyzer.

BTW, the VLC player v2.0.1 has a .wtv codec and can now play back HDTV
recorded with 7 Media Center on an XP machine.

jsw

 

[Mho]

Yeah, current limitin' fuses, jus' like they all tell ya'.

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"Jim Wilkins" wrote in message
But sir, the production test station showed they were good, when I
pushed the red button the meter stopped at 100A just like it's
supposed to!

jsw

 

[Jim Wilkins]

Yeah, current limitin' fuses, jus' like they all tell ya'.

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"Jim Wilkins" wrote in message But sir, the production test station showed they were good, when I
pushed the red button the meter stopped at 100A just like it's
supposed to!
jsw

The people hired to operate production line test stations typically
know so little of electronics that it's really hard to guess what they
might assume. I designed what I thought was a UAW-proof control panel
for a machine for GM, then watched the operator whose nose remained
buried in a book swat blindly at the buttons until she heard the fans
turn on.

jsw

 

[Mho]

First Color Organ? Did you get it to trigger the low fuel lamp?