Thermal Cutoff...?

It blew out once, likely because of overtemperature. Bypass it and next time the blowout might not be something quiet and flameless.

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Even then. Since if the insurance inspector finds that the wall adapter was tampered with, you better have a good lawyer. :)

It's only a $2 part. Sounds like 130 degC, 1 A.

If it goes again, the transformer is overheating either because there are some shorted turns in the transformer or the load is too high.

Or, just get a new wall adapter.

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Absolutely agreed. Do not bypass this essential protection device

Arfa

Doh,Thanks for catching that everybody. I don't know why it is,but I seem to always pass over the most simple and obvious things when it comes to this stuff. I'm sure if I would have stopped and thought about it and let everything marinate awhile I would have figured out what a stupid idea/question that was.

Thanks again guys,its most Appreciated

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One more thing, They tend to go open from the heat of soldering them! The leads either have to be left pretty long and you have to be very quick or you can use a heat shunt (e.g. a pair of foreceps with a little pad of copper braid between the jaws latched onto the lead between where you are soldering and the body of the part.

Metal cased ones have the case live. You cant swap a plastic cased thermal fuse for a metal one safely in most mains voltage applications. If you cant get the correct temperature one easily anything +- 5deg should be fine but for liability reasons, if for a customer go under rather than over.

Lastly and *NOT* related to your question, this is a worldwide *USENET* group and is in no way owned by or even part of Google (They do have their own groups as well that dont make it out here). The order we (non google groups users) see posts on our screen is in no way related to what Google shows you. Users of Google Groups frequently (a) dont quote at least some of preceding messages, and (b)frequently seem to start a new thread that the rest of us cant see is connected to the original question. The end result is they tend to get ignored because it appears that they aren't polite enough to thank the people that helped them. In some cases this is true, though I suspect thats its often the case that their reply simply got 'misfiled'. Fortunately this time your reply

*was* properly threaded. I've taken the liberty of PUTTING BACK (quoting) the previous posters in this thread, although some might say I should have trimmed their replies a bit more.

The Google Reply button at the bottom is NOTORIOUS for causing this problem, though I understand that if you use the Reply on the options dropdown on the right of the message header it does let you quote the preceding message.

One replies at the bottom (or interleaved below each question or point you are responding to because:

A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?

(I defend anyone's right to top post as freedom of expression, but I beg you, please dont do it *here*)

Finally, the situation with spam from Google users + general abuse of usenet is getting so bad that an increasing number of users on *many* groups are advocating killfiling (permanently blocking) *all* messages posted via Google. *Every* Goggle user who makes the effort to learn and follow the customs of the USENET groups they are using improves their chances of being listened to considerably. The users most likely to block you are often the longest standing ones with the most experience :-( You may wish to get a proper newsreader program and subscribe to a USENet provider (usually called a News Server), to let you break away from Google's restrictions and problems.

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Bad advice from 'Charles', as usual. :(

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