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

[Steve Wedge, W1ES/4]

Yeah, it’s definitely strange.

Steve Wedge, W1ES/4

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On Mon, Oct 16, 2023 at 11:04, TimC <[k1dc.radio at gmail.com](mailto:On Mon, Oct 16, 2023 at 11:04, TimC <<a href=)> wrote:

> 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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