AMP W/O A FUSE

[angelodp]

R.G. how would the lab guys react to Hot to fuse, switch, PT, Neutral to PT, with parallel 120v indicator light across the PT leads and switching both the Hot and Neutral. In the event of a venue with reversed phase. Would that pass muster.

[ChopSauce]

I'm not sure what "muster" means but I don't see what you could do better. Double fusing seems overkill, no?
(maybe someone will tell us)

[Stevem]

While your tech is going over it’s age related issues and short comings
have him as posted install a 1 amp slow blow fuse in PTs primary side and then since 84s seem to blow so often and take the OT with them a .075 fast blow fuse placed in the OTs center tap feed will cover that potential issue.

[Phil_S]

I'm not sure what "muster" means

The use is idiomatic. It is a military term that means lining up the troops for inspection. Here it means modifying the amp so that it meets general safety standards or it would mean so that it will pass inspection.

[ChopSauce]

Thanks! Funny the same expression (passer la revue) exists in french with the translation (revue) of the word "muster". I should have caught it...

[R.G.]

R.G. how would the lab guys react to Hot to fuse, switch, PT, Neutral to PT, with parallel 120v indicator light across the PT leads and switching both the Hot and Neutral. In the event of a venue with reversed phase. Would that pass muster.

The lab guys would think that's just fine!

They would be incredibly picky about other stuff like strain relief, wire colors, exactly which switch terminals get connected to the unswitched AC line, prevention of the power switch from rotating in its hole, and on and on and on. My brushes with safety lab inspections have been exercises in frustration and patience building.

[R.G.]

I'm not sure what "muster" means but I don't see what you could do better. Double fusing seems overkill, no?
(maybe someone will tell us)

Double fusing the primary line is indeed deemed to be overkill by the safety standards guys.

Or at least, they don't ...yet... require it for passing.

[angelodp]

Not double fusing, simply switching both Live and Neutral.

cheers

[Phil_S]

Thanks! Funny the same expression (passer la revue) exists in french with the translation (revue) of the word "muster". I should have caught it...

Yes, it is funny how the same indiom can exist in more than one language. I was there half a lifetime ago when there was a train strike. We went to buy tickets and the man in the booth says, "En greve." He won't sell us tickets. It took a minute for me to understand the expression is the same as in English. I thought he wanted to hit me. Idioms are challenging, even when you have the vocabulary. (For the record, I speak only a very little bit of French, not enough to have a conversation, at least not about anything of substance. By contrast, your English is excellent.)

[ChopSauce]

Thank you sir...

There's a bias, though: english is much more usefull, compact, powerfull, fun, easy (less cicumvoluted, loaded with exceptions,... ) etc, than french...

[pompeiisneaks]

Thank you sir...

There's a bias, though: english is much more usefull, compact, powerfull, fun, easy (less cicumvoluted, loaded with exceptions,... ) etc, than french...

BUT as you know french has so many more ways to express things, and is many times more complex in it's subtleties for the same base word(s) etc. It's why the international legalese is often in French, or at least it used to be when I was younger and lived in France

~Phil

[ChopSauce]

Doesn't confusion live around subtleties ?



Probably subtleties are more puzzling in any foreign language, whatever the language...