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George <gmiiii@in*.co*> wrote:
> FAILURE POINT -  how tough is that for you guys to understand? Go diving like 
>we do, you will suddendly understand this. Only a total idiot would fuse 
>something like this, and there is no possiblilty of shorting out in a proper 
>light. If it did short out, the wires instantly burn off, as they do on a 
>scooter, or anything else. 

Ok, so if I understand correctly, the one side of the coin is that every
once in a rare long while the fuse in a fused light fails when it
shouldn't have, and the other side of the coin is that every once in a
rare long while a short in an unfused light fries the wires.  The big
difference is that the first failure mode leaves you without light when
you should have still had light, while the second failure mode is a
situation that would leave you without light regardless.  Or to phrase it
otherwise, failure mode one could kill you (although backup lights and
buddies with light will do their best to get you back out), while failure
mode two means you need to buy several bucks worth of wire and rewire
your light (assuming no damage to the battery).  I can see where one's
priorities should then lie.  

Just don't anybody go replacing their fuse with a .22 round.  :-)

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Anthony DeBoer                                  http://www.onramp.ca/~adb/
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