14 Sep
2006
14 Sep
'06
1:09 p.m.
On Thursday 14 September 2006 03:09 am, Zane H. Healy
wrote:
It's the one on the motherboard (original style 64). It's already blown and
I'm planning on trying to find a replacement later on today. I'm thinking
the local auto-parts store might actually be a good choice, as IIRC, that's
the same style fuse that my pickup uses (yeah, it's an old pickup).
Still not totally sure if it should be a 1A or 1.5A, as there seem to be
lots of conflicting answers on that. I guess I'll try to pick up a 1.5A.
Zane
How many Amps should the fuse in the C64 be rated
for? The fuse I
pulled is a 1.5A 250V fuse, yet "Troubleshooting & Repairing your
Commodore 64" says to use a 1A 250V fuse. A quick bit of googling
seems to indicate that it should be 1.5A.
I don't think it really makes all that much difference. In working on maybe
some thousands of those things I can't recall if we ever did see a blown fuse
in there. Assuming you're talking about the one in the 64, and not the one
in the PS, which is another matter. If you have them handy already I'd use
the 1.5A. The only time it's going to blow is if there's a short somewhere,
and most of the failures I've seen in those machines are other things.