John, It is a thermal fuse, not a regular fuse. As to why it failed I suspect fatigue. I have replaced many of these fuses and the units worked fine afterwards. There used to be a digi-key part that was a good replacement but I don't find it listed anymore! Cheers, Corby

In my 50 years of “ twiddling “ with gizmos and gadgets, the only fuses that I have found that just failed because of fatigue were thermal fuses in coffee makers. So you’re likely right on target. I used yo buy replacements at radio shack. It was interesting in that one I replaced the failed original, it never failed again. I concluded that the OEM part was likely very cheap. Kind regards, John https://linkedin.com/in/john-h-6a131b12/ > On Jan 20, 2024, at 2:21 PM, cdelect--- via time-nuts <time-nuts@lists.febo.com> wrote: > > John, It is a thermal fuse, not a regular fuse. As to why it failed I suspect fatigue. I have replaced many of these fuses and the units worked fine afterwards. There used to be a digi-key part that was a good replacement but I don't find it listed anymore! Cheers, > Corby > _______________________________________________ > time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@lists.febo.com > To unsubscribe send an email to time-nuts-leave@lists.febo.com