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Excuse me. Maybe I'm the only one who sees the obvious here. If you have a short and you're using the light what do you think is going to happen? Do you think the wires are going to melt? Do you think you'll explode? Have you ever thought about the OBVIOUS fact that your filament will burn out thereby breaking the circuit because the bulb will work like your fuse? There is NO valid reason to have a fuse in a light. The charger won't work when there's a short, and the bulb will blow before anything really bad will happen with a short. The only reason to have a fuse in the light is to try and fix a non-problem, which just adds a new problem by itself. Think it through. Ken > Date sent: Mon, 14 Oct 1996 23:35:51 -0400 > From: Anthony DeBoer <adb@he*.re*.or*> > To: techdiver@terra.net > Subject: Re: Private Re: DiveRite MLS info > Organization: Linda's Dragon Memorial Society > 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. :-) > > -- > Anthony DeBoer http://www.onramp.ca/~adb/ > adb@he*.re*.or* (here) > adb@ge*.co* (work) #include "std.disclaimer" > -- > Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@terra.net'. > Send subscription/archive requests to `techdiver-request@terra.net'. >
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