I completely agree with you. The inline fuses are there for mobile installations where you have a direct connection to the car battery. On my ICOM radios I have always shortened the power cable removing the inline fuse in the process.
AB2TC - Knut David Cutter wrote: > > You are much better off using the current limiting feature of your dc > supply. A fuse is not fast enough to protect any electronic circuitry. > Strictly speaking a fuse in line is rated to protect the cable in the > event > of a short circuit in the rig which would be a very big fuse, far bigger > than your psu is rated to supply most likely. Fuses and their holders are > too slow and drop valuable volts along with the cable drop and connectors, > which all add up to a poorer distortion figure on transmit. > > David > G3UNA > <snip> > -- View this message in context: http://elecraft.365791.n2.nabble.com/K3-inline-fuse-tp5414371p5418061.html Sent from the [K3] mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
