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Fuse ?
Question from Matt: I recently got an old Twin Cobras arcade game for cheap. I was trying to test the fuses on the fuse block and noticed one was bad with my multimeter. I can’t tell what the amps are or anything. The game is using a switching power supply if that helps. Any info would be great. You guys do a great job and keep the videos coming. Matt
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Response from Jonathan: Matt,
Most fuses have the amp and voltage values imprinted around the silver part. Unfortunately a switching power supply does not tell us exactly how many amps the fuse is expecting. If you cannot read the values off of the fuse, you might try a either a 2 or 5 amp slow blow fuse as these are pretty common. Radio Shack sells a 4 pack of each of these fuses for pretty cheap ($5 or less). I would start off with the 2 amp then move to the 5 amp. If it blows both fuses then you might be having some power feedback problems either in your wiring or power supply.
Hope that helps. Thank you for your question and good luck with your repair.
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