Sunil Hari wrote: > > It's a fuse - it's a strip of metal designed to melt at a given current. > Change in metal type would only change the thickness of metal used. I don't > think it really matters what the metal is, so long as it works. New fuses > are better than old ones though, because they get dirty and don't conduct as > well, blah blah blah.
I've never seen a copper fuse that looked OK but didn't pass current and then fell apart when I removed it. I have seen aluminum fuses do that.
