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• In a circuit with a fast-acting fuse, an IC will blow to protect the fuse.
• Use only fuse or circuit breaker protected electrical power strips and do not daisy chain power strips.
  i.e. do not plug one power strip into another power strip or into an extension cord....
• There 's not a sea the passenger e'er pukes in, Turns up more dangerous breakers than the Euxine.
  -- Lord Byron (1788-1824) -- Don Juan, Canto v, Stanza 5...
• BF: Blow Fuse
• Don't ever become a pessimist, Ira; a pessimist is correct oftener than an optimist, but an optimist has more fun -- and neither can stop the march of events.
  -- Robert Heinlein, Time Enough For Love...
• Reduce your i.o.u. to i.r.s with an i.r.a.
• A transistor protected by a fast-acting fuse will protect the fuse by blowing first.