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Posted by John_A_Brown: Tue. Mar 27, 2018 - 12:24 PM
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I blew the fuse on my trusty multimeter.

Nothing in my RS fuse selection box from 35 years ago(starts at 1A).

The only place I can find 1" by 1/4" 500mA quick blow is Farnell, who want £££ for postage.

Anyone have any idea where I might find such a thing? Can you get adapters? Can you get 500mA fuse wire(I can't find any)?

 25.4 x 6.3 mm for Europeans.

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Posted by Brian Fairchild: Tue. Mar 27, 2018 - 12:34 PM
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John,

 

I'm doing a Farnell order at the moment, if you've got a part number I'll happily stick one on it and then reship by post.

 

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Posted by John_A_Brown: Tue. Mar 27, 2018 - 12:43 PM
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That's very kind. However, I just checked the Farnell part, and it's US stock only!

 

John

 

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Posted by awneil: Tue. Mar 27, 2018 - 12:49 PM (Reply to #3)
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Do Digikey have any?

 

They do free shipping on orders over £33 - I might be able To "pad" an order ...

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Posted by DAFlippers: Tue. Mar 27, 2018 - 12:51 PM
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RS have 1"x1/4" 500mA fuses £1.52 for 1 fast blow. https://uk.rs-online.com/web/p/c...

 

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Posted by John_A_Brown: Tue. Mar 27, 2018 - 01:00 PM
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I have soldered a 20mm fuse to the blown 1" fuse. Seems to be fine, and luckily there was enough room.

I'll try to remember to find a couple when I'm in America this summer.

 

Thanks to all anyway.

 

John

 

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Posted by John_A_Brown: Tue. Mar 27, 2018 - 01:07 PM
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Also, I now think Maplin have them. Which is where I bought the 20mm ones thsi morning.

https://www.maplin.co.uk/p/500ma...

You can see why I didn't think these were the ones when I searched their website. The picture is not helpful.

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Posted by ki0bk: Tue. Mar 27, 2018 - 01:12 PM
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Have you tried Ebay? 

 

 

 

 

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Posted by John_A_Brown: Tue. Mar 27, 2018 - 01:25 PM
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ki0bk wrote:

Have you tried Ebay? 

Yes. First place I looked, followed by Amazon.

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Posted by Paulvdh: Tue. Mar 27, 2018 - 11:21 PM
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Multimeters often have weird and expensive fuses, especially when they are CAT III or CAT IV rated.

 

Where I live glass fuses of 6.3 * 31.7mm or 5*20mm are common and cheap.

Because I do not need CAT ratings for my electronics works I tend to modify my multimeters for common & cheap fuses and schratch the CAT rating from the front.

 

Ebay / Aly / Banggood / China are also very handy if you have the time.

Small orders are almost always with "free shipping".

But I would not trust the CAT rating on a fuse bought directly from China this way.

Just don't get mad if 1 out of 100 packets get lost in the mail.

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Posted by theusch: Wed. Mar 28, 2018 - 06:22 PM
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John_A_Brown wrote:
I have soldered a 20mm fuse to the blown 1" fuse.

I always figured that you had a [too] short fuse...

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Posted by meslomp: Thu. Mar 29, 2018 - 06:04 AM
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Paulvdh wrote:

Just don't get mad if 1 out of 100 packets get lost in the mail.

With Alie that is not a problem... you did not get the package so they will have to ship again. All you need to do is be in time with reporting it as not received.

would have expected them to have it though.

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