[Jukebox-list] Wes's brilliant idea

[Dieterle, Jeff R.]

We do the same thing t-shooting industrial electrical circuits looking
for a shorts and/or grounds that blow fuses. Replace the fuse with a
lamp of the same voltage. If the suspect circuit is buried in a wire
trough with hundreds of wires we use a large enough wattage bulb with
one of those Edison socket flasher gizmos to identify the pulsing
current of the offending wire with a clamp on ammeter to track it
through the maze. Make sure the only live circuit is the problem one,
grab a fistful of wires at a time till you grab a clump that indicates
the pulsing current and whittle down to the correct wire to continue
tracking.

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From: NotarySojac [mailto:notarysojac at sbcglobal.net] 
Sent: Wednesday, November 22, 2006 6:16 PM
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Subject: [Jukebox-list] Wes's brilliant idea

Brilliant idea, Wes! No pun intended.
Maybe I'm missing something, however. These fuses are held in place with
a little bayonet cap on one end. How do you attache the wire ends across
the fuse holder in this case?
Bob
P.S. No reply necessary until after you have had your turkey dinner.

Wes said:
Bob, if you have deep pockets, go ahead and keep on blowing expensive
fuses. But I, being close of coin devised a way to monitor the short
circuit without blowing fuses. Acquire a lamp of like voltage of the
circuit to be checked.  This lamp may be as large as the fuse rating.
Solder two small wires on the lamp and attach the other ends of the
wires across the fuse holder. Now instead of blowing fuses, the short
will only illuminate the lamp to full brilliance. Now you can poke
around looking for the short ay your leisure. Wes