> > I was impressed with a recent comment that 'You can only burn out if you
> > have been on fire' !
>
> Hmmm.
>
> Obviously not an electrician who wrote that gem.
>
> Fuses burn out when the electrical current passed through them exceeds
their
> rated maximum current.
>
> They rarely go on fire (thank goodness!).
>
> So one burns out when the workload passed through one exceeds one's rated
> maximum capacity.
>
> The time to burn out being related to the degree that the workload exceeds
> the rated maximum capacity.
>
>
Ahh - that's OK then. I have a minature circuit breaker.
Jeremy Harrison
PS That'll probably see a few more "suspends" then.
PPS Let's not see the suspenders in public: do it privately here:
http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/
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