We brought along a new powered cooler for the car,
so that we could keep slightly more interesting food than bread and peanut butter for picnic lunches. Prior to coming through Canada, we hadn’t used it, as we didn’t want to deal with any customs issues. But yesterday, we used it for water bottles, then after grocery shopping we filled it with a few items. At a certain point, I noticed that its fan wasn’t going, and it’s simple enough to have no thermostat, so I was suspicious. When we got to the hotel, we brought it with us, as we also have an A/C adapter for it. I looked for a switch or a fuse, and finding none obvious on the unit, I took apart the cigar lighter plug where fuses often are, but this proved more difficult than it should have, due to either a junky CLP or it being melted due to a current overload? Anyway, while the wire in the fuse wasn’t visibly broken, the fuse showed signs of being blown.
After dinner, we drove over to Home Depot which was right behind the restaurant, and while they didn’t have the exact same fuse (8A), they did have slow blow 8A and normal 10A fuses. I bought both. So far, the slow blow 8A is holding up.
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10 responses to “Literally Blew a Fuse”
Wow, that’s a great cooler! Much bigger than ours.
We had a small Helping Hands group today; Bertha and I worked on the apples and also made some flower bouquets from a funeral arrangement Christine brought in. Scott, Susan O, and Christine came in to sing Happy Birthday to Bertha and eat some chocolate chip cake with penuche frosting.
We miss you!
Wow — I was guessing it would be smaller than yours. Most of the others were bigger than this one! Anyway, it fits between the front seats, and when it is working, it keeps things cool 🙂
Come to Colorado; no mosquitos, and two refrigerators on 20A circuits.
An invitation we can’t (or at least won’t) refuse! BTW, have your soldering iron and solder ready…
I am SO disappointed that Madison didn’t treat you better! Did you see signs for my hometown: Stoughton???????
I don’t recall Stoughton, honestly, though plenty of other Massachusetts town names!
Sleep tight – don’t let the skeeters bite!
A tall order! We did our best…
Hi Susan – too bad you had such a small group. Thanks for covering. Have fun on your big vacation too!!!
Ready for soldering.