John Veninger

I've seen seven and a half-ant fuses in slow blow

Alan

Since we are talkin about ants...

How many people have trouble finding the 1 Ant ATC fuses locally? I know 928Int stocks them but does anyone find them in general local auto parts stores? Round these parts the lowest I ever see is 3A and even that is quite rare...?

If you ever buy an ATC fuse kit it also fails to have the right parts - no 1A no 7.5A and a bunch of 10A & 20A that aren't used...

Alan.

Mike Simard

Waytek has some one ants. You're right that they're hard to find, even DelCity carries 3 ants as their smallest, if they don't have them than a local parts store probably wouldn't. Wonder if there are problems out there because of fuses too big being used?

worf928

By 'trouble' do you mean being laughed out of the parts stores? Then yes.

I get them from the usual suspects. Although, legend has it that there's a parts store somewhere in CT that has them.

Calling Dr. Goodspeed... (in CT.)

worf928

How can half an ant traverse all that distance from the negative cable? I guess it must be slow with only half the legs. All the 'full' ants must laugh at it something awful. Make it feel bad an all about how it cannot charge through like the rest of them...

Iris and Kevin

I want some ant fuses too. I hear you can make 300 ant rwhp.

docmirror

Wow, I cAN'T believe you guys are still 'bugging' me about this.

Do a little physics around here and folks march all over ya. Way to pile on a guy.

dr bob

So, can we use Raid to de-bug electrical flow issues in the 928? This thread is gaining legs.. This probably the first time I've heard the ant analogy to currant flow, so forgive my breach of etiquette when I foolishly made fun of it.

Alan

Well - everyone agreed with lightening things up I guess...

"Ants" was a really good (dare I say it) ~homophone though - I think we'll certainly get to reuse that analogy again...

Of course when we do pull it out of retirement most folks won't understand what the heck happened...!

Alan

Ed Scherer

This might also be a good time to mention that if you've had persistent problems with parasitic current drain while your shark is parked, you might look for termites in the circuits.

worf928

What can you do to resist these termites?

In tracking down parasitic drain I've always found that you have be very careful or you will Heisenbug yourself.

docmirror

No prob guys, I can take plenty of biting comments. I have a thick exoskeleton. I used to teach semiconductor (hole) theory way back. The ants on the wire analogy seemed to get through to some of them. Although there were some that were hopeless. I had to have the 'I think you should investigate a marketing major' talk a few times.

Of course you all know the origins of the term 'computer bug'. It resulted from the affinity that moths had for tube circuits back in the 50s. The early tube computers would have to be 'debugged' to get rid of problems.

Alan

Reminds me... way back in the 80's while I was in England I was working on a chip design and we had gone to the pub for lunch.

We took a bunch of schematics with us and after lunch and a pint (or 3) - we pulled out the schematics and after a while a little beetle popped out from between two pages....

Someone squished it and we all just looked at each other and had a good laugh - nobody needed to say anything...

Later on in the project someone gave out a gag recognition gift of "Blammo Bug Blaster Spray" to our champion debugger. Started something of a tradition of fly swatters, plastic bugs etc.

Alan

VehiGAZ

So Doc, would you recommend Antsoil as well?

BOO-YA!!!

jim morehouse

I still haven't found the source of my battery drain but it's not a big deal now since I installed a magnetically latching relay (originally intended to switch batteries in RV's) in my car. Here's a link to the thread that gives the relay source and installation:

https://rennlist.com/forums/928-forum/200117-one-way-to-beat-a-battery-drain.html

In short, I installed the relay in the battery compartment and a momentary switch that controls the relay on the drivers side passenger tray. This allows me to switch the battery in/out from the drivers seat. An LED mounted w the switch indicates if the battery is in/out.

HTH,
Jim