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Originally Posted by Malcolm G
A useful guide….
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You missed one Malcolm! Well two, apart from the "piece of coathanger wire", nice and THICK........!
My wife had a Gas Station. The compressor was forever blowing fuses, but no one told us. Then the motor was damaged.
Off I went, multimeter in hand, to check it. First stop, the fuse box. There were bottle caps, doubled and forced into the fuse terminals! (110V, 15A) When I asked,"WHO!....." the workers feigned dementia. We were forced to issue stern warnings to everyone and put a padlock on the fuse box with a "responsible" person for the key!
BTW, the problem was the pressure microswitch which did not cut the motor at the set pressure and thus caused the motor to overheat. (Or something like that, I really cannot remember, it was so long ago!)
Rgds.
Dave