SNES fuse repair

[korn16ftl3]

what a resistor or some other component cant act as a fuse? i have a tackle box full of odds and ends components i inherited from some one who passed that was a relative of hos he didnt know what to do with the stuff so he gave it to me...... thing is i see fuse tubes in there with resistors in them really weird

[Hobie-wan]

There are glass fuses that have a sort of 'lump' in the wire. Or maybe you've got some large glass diodes?

[Ziggy]

Or maybe they ARE resistors, but they were mounted in fuse holders for some really odd reason for some random project.

[vlame]

so since the .85a is being fed, it will never go over that, so anything bigger is fine.

got it, gonna order tonight.

[Ziggy]

Well you can't say ANYTHING bigger than that is fine. If that were true, there'd be no point to the fuse. The 1.5A fuse that's on there blew, so obviously more than 1.5A tried to pass through it.

[vlame]

i mean "Fine" as in the snes will run without problems until the fuse pops again due to an electrical.

the whole reason im asking is because i want to make the fuse easily replaceable if it were to happen again.

[Hobie-wan]

so since the .85a is being fed, it will never go over that, so anything bigger is fine.

got it, gonna order tonight.

The power supply could short internally or a surge could overload it and send more than the .85 to the system. That's one of the reasons the fuse it there.

But the 1.5 fuse and holder you linked should be fine since it had that rating in it to begin with.

[vlame]

went with these, MCM doesn't have free shipping anymore.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/190596775930?ss ... 1439.l2649

http://www.ebay.com/itm/170665357437?ss ... 1439.l2649

[Hobie-wan]

Those fuses are 10 Amp. Nearly as useless as just soldering a piece of wire there.

[vlame]

Those fuses are 10 Amp. Nearly as useless as just soldering a piece of wire there.

more amps are worse? so less amps is better?