Originally Posted by
Paul Johnston
What do you mean by the old penny trick? Yes people can circumvent the purpose of any safety devise like seat belts or anything. When I said nothing wrong with fuses I meant used properly.
"When I said nothing wrong with fuses I meant used properly."
That is my point - they are not used properly because they are so easy to defeat.
Take your seat belt example, they were so easy NOT to use that manufacturers started putting buzzers in which went off when the seat belt was not used, then people complained about the buzzers, so the buzzers were made to only come on for a few seconds (to allow you to die without seatbelt in peace and quiet), then they replaced buzzers with a chime sound, to lull you to sleep so you could die in even more quiet (except for all that darn noise around you caused by the crashing and smashing of steel and glass). Heck, some manufacturers even went to "passive" seat belts in that you did not have to do anything, the seat belt did it for you, but no one liked those either.
Things CAN be defeated, and THE EASIER it is to defeat them, the more often they will be defeated - and Edison base fuses are on that list.
Which makes them LESS THAN "safe" and certainly LESS THAN "safer".