Then you've not come across the ones in TK50Z desktop cases (and a few
other things). They don't like operating without a minimum load,
No, probably not. Actually I may have one somewhere, but have never had to
repair it, so have never run it without a load.
Thanks for the warning though!
without which various parts sacrifice themselves to
protect the fuse. I
How unusual. My experience is that a transistor protected by an expensive
fast-acting fuse will fail short-circuit, thus taking out the fuse as well.
-tony