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ajsooter

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I think its a 4/10 fuse of some sort. Anyone know for sure?
 

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kellys_eye

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Might be - it's a new one on me. How about a wider view of the whole unit? Some form of 'context' might help here.
 

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Might be - it's a new one on me. How about a wider view of the whole unit? Some form of 'context' might help here.
it's an Dometic AC control unit on my motorhome.
 

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(*steve*)

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It looks to me that it's a very thin piece of wire, possibly designed to fail at 400mA.

It looks like part of the wire is still present and there's a mark under the hole in the paper which may be the residue of the rest of the wire.

My guess that for copper wire it would have a diameter about half of 40 AWG. That might be 46 AWG if you can get such a thing.

It is probably easier to get a fuse holder and a 400mA fuse.
 

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I concur with @(*steve*) - a cheap and nasty fuse solution in its present form and better off replaced with something 'standard'.

That said, a blown fuse is indicative of a fault..... and simply replacing the fuse may just cause it to blow again. Resist the temptation to fit a larger fuse!

Hopefully, the fuse looks (to me) like it's failed under plain old stress (multiple on/off's and the attendant build-up of fuse wire fragility) so replacement may just get the unit going again. If it doesn't, report back here and tell us more about the system and we may be able to assist further.
 

73's de Edd

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Sir ajsooter . . . . .

I remember those from the past . . .in this case circa 1984 . . . where they had used fiberglass blanks as is shown and ~ # 30-32 copper wire, (*****) was being used as a fuse link, and was strung between the two end divots, and soldered to the conventional wire leads as is shown, they then wired into the board at the YELLOW circles, where conventional #20 ga tinned leads were used..
(*****) Referring to left duplicate illustration

In your original unit . . . at the right . . . some of the remnant wire is seen dangling down at the bottom.
Use a more conventional 4/10 amp fast blow pigtail fuse to replace it with.
AFTER . . .isolating the overload cause and correcting.

BLOW UP . . . . .


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73's de Edd
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