22 Feb
2011
22 Feb
'11
4:10 p.m.
On 22 Feb 2011 at 18:54, Tony Duell wrote:
I always heard it as 'A transistor protected by a
fast-acting fuse
will protect the fuse by blowing first'. However, I've always found
that a transisotr protected by an expensive fast-acting fuse will
always fail short-circuit, thus ensuring the fuse blows too...
A friend who was a field engineer for DEC used to grumble about DEC
and their "transistor-protected fuses". She worked mostly on DEC PDP-
10s.
--Chuck