On Sat, 18 Oct 2003, Ted Kosan wrote:
> This is good news. Now what about the matching male plugs that the
> older power supplies had that were used to plug a monitor into? Here is
> something similar to what I mean:
We're using those as well.
> Except that instead of having a Power Supply/Monitor female end on it,
> it has an 'extension cord' female end on it that standard appliances can
> plug in to.
Haven't seen any of these around. We could make them as the parts are
available.
> > sure to have a gap of at least 5 millimeters between the 240V traces
> > and everything else (other traces, components not connected to 240V,
> > case etc) to comply with safety regulations...
>
> Thanks for this information, it should come in handy in the future.
After rereading the safety instructions another time I found this should
be 6 mm.
> But this information is useful right now! I had went with slow blow
> fuses in the prototypes. What is the reason for requiring fast blow
> fuses?
The safety instructions allow both fast and slow fuses. However, more and
more homes (and office buildings as well) have electronic fuses installed
and a lot of them are the fast kind. It would be nice if the appliance
fuse triggers before the fuse one level up does.
I've been looking for an english translation of the 1 sheet safety tips
extract I found. No luck so far. Anyone got the time to translate
dutch->english? (Or do you read dutch Ted?)
Regards,
Jac
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Jac Kersing Technical Consultant The-Box Development
j.k...@th... http://www.the-box.com
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