[bars] When is a fuse not a fuse, redux?

[TimC]

Huh -- Learn something new every day.

I don't think this is what I had -- these are the typical glass cylinder 
type.  The fuse in the negative line reads as a short, as expected.

73,

T.

On 16-Oct-23 10:56, KC1SOZ wrote:
> You may be dealing with a fusible resistor.
>
> https://www.elprocus.com/fusible-resistor/#:~:text=A%20fusible%20resistor%20is%20one,the%20event%20of%20an%20overload.
>
> 73,
> KC1SOZ
> Juan
>
>
> On Mon, Oct 16, 2023 at 10:42 AM TimC <k1dc.radio at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>     Almost a year and a half ago my TS-2000 developed a problem with
>     intermittent shutdown that eventually graduated to brick status. 
>     After MUCH troubleshooting the root cause was a power line fuse
>     that had transformed into a 1.2k resistor.  I thought at the time
>     that this was so weird it had to be a one-off.
>
>     Well... now it's a two-off.  My IC-756 did the exact same thing
>     this morning after some heavy FT8 use and sure enough, another
>     fuse->resistor transformation.  Just to be clear, they don't show
>     as open, nor short.  They read ~1k ohm.
>
>     Is this a known/common occurrence or do I live in some weird hole
>     in the universe where these things happen?
>
>     73,
>
>     T.
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