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MrBungle · 28th Oct 2017, 11:26 pm

I remember my father doing something similar in the mid 1980s. He'd imported a load of hardware from Taiwan which was 110v so he hired a guy (whos other part time job was a commercial pilot?!?) to put new transformers in everything and stuff an adapter on the plug. He goes "Hey John, the fuse keeps going". My father in his wisdom says "just put a bigger one in it and see if that's ok". So he couldn't find one and stuck a soldering iron tip in the fuse holder...

Woosh! Turns out PVC smoke can fill a room pretty quick!

28th Oct 2017, 11:26 pm	#9
MrBungle Dekatron Join Date: Jun 2016 Location: London, UK. Posts: 3,687	Re: Never assume anything! I remember my father doing something similar in the mid 1980s. He'd imported a load of hardware from Taiwan which was 110v so he hired a guy (whos other part time job was a commercial pilot?!?) to put new transformers in everything and stuff an adapter on the plug. He goes "Hey John, the fuse keeps going". My father in his wisdom says "just put a bigger one in it and see if that's ok". So he couldn't find one and stuck a soldering iron tip in the fuse holder... Woosh! Turns out PVC smoke can fill a room pretty quick!