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Over sensitive Expensive fuses ???

I have been using HIFI Tuning fuses for a while in all my equiptment.
I rearly use the power switches on the equipment, except for the mono blocs, as I power up everything else by turning on the Exactpower.

Anyway I just got a new CD player, and wanted to leave it on in repeat mode to burnin. So I turned off the preamp and other stuff individually.
When I returned the next day and fliped the switch on the preamp nothing happened, it was dead. I removed the fuse and tested it, it was open.
I replaced it with one of the regular cheap ones and everything was fine again, I played the system for a couple hours.

The next day I said, maybe that HIFI one was just defective, so let me put in another one I had from the old CD player I just sold.
I plucked out the cheapo and stuck in the $29.95 silver filament, gold end one, and as I engaged the rocker switch the lovely blue LED on the front panel just winked at me once.
Another $29.95 up in smoke.

I put the cheapo back in, played the system for hours and thats where that cheap fuse is staying.
I am not sure whats going on with that particular switch, fuse, preamp PS. Maybe the switch causes too much surge when power is applied so close to that fuse, as they never blew when I used the conditioner to turn on everything.
Maybe the silver filament just cann't handle all applications.
Either way, I think I will stick to the cheaper ones.

AB.

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Topic - Over sensitive Expensive fuses ??? - ABliss 08:57:36 06/10/07 (12)
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