10 hours ago, StinkerB06 said:
He then bought the wrong type from the hardware store, putting it in the PSU caused the machine to not turn on.
Something else that occurs to me, and if there's an engineer or technician who reads this then please correct me if I'm wrong, but wouldn't Dave's choice of fuse have nothing to do with whether or not the PSU was dead?
I mean, there are three possibilities, right? Either the replacement fuse was correct, or it was wrong and would not blow in the event of overdraw, or it was wrong and would blow under normal circumstances.
If the fuse was correct, then it was correct and the PSU was simply dead.
If the fuse was wrong, and would not blow in the event of overdraw, then we would have seen magic smoke, angry pixies, or Dave might have simply died(*) on camera. Since none of that happened, the PSU was already dead.
If the fuse was wrong, and would blow under normal circumstances, then it would have blown if the PSU was not dead. Since that didn't happen, the PSU was already dead.
In all of these cases, the PSU was already dead and the choice of fuse made no difference.
(*) If it bleeds it leads, right? I mean, dying seems like a steep price to pay to entertain one's followers, but some youtubers will do damn near anything for that ad revenue. I assume Dave's financial means are such that he doesn't need to stoop to such grotesque tactics. ? Besides, brushes with death is a niche already being filled by Mehdi Sadaghdar on ElectroBOOM.