In worse cases, it can lead to a fire outbreak. The fuse in a circuit causes a break in the circuit when there is an excess flow of electricity thereby stopping the flow of electricity<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
In the process of stopping the excess electrical current from entering the circuit, the thin wire in the fuse melts or the fuse gets blown up. So literally, they are like sacrificial objects in a circuit. A fuse getting blown up actually means it served its purpose in the circuit by protecting it from an electrical surge. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The first way to check if your fuse is blown is by visually inspecting the fuse. When a fuse is burnt, the thin metal strip inside the melts or you see burnt marks on the fuse. Sometimes the non-combustible material like glass, ceramic, or plastic melts or breaks. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\nAlso, you want to check the metal strip inside to see if it’s connected on both ends of the metal terminal.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
Another way to know your fuse has gone bad is to make use of a multimeter. No matter the shape or size of the fuse, you can test them the same way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Using the Ohm setting, all you just need to do is touch both ends of the fuse with the probes of the multimeter. If the fuse is still good, it will show a reading of zero on the multimeter which means there’s no electrical resistance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Using the continuity test, touch both ends of the fuse with the probes of a multimeter, and if you get a beeping sound, it shows your fuse is still good and there’s a circuit completion but if you don’t get any sound or reading, it shows there’s no circuit completion which means the fuse is bad. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Also, it’s important to note that to carry out this test with a multimeter, it can’t be done on a metal surface. If done on a metal surface, you’ll get a false reading.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The importance of a fuse in an electrical circuit can not be overemphasized because, without a fuse, electrical…\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":6416,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/techsofar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Can-A-Fuse-Go-Bad-Without-Blowing.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/techsofar.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5678"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/techsofar.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/techsofar.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techsofar.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techsofar.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5678"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/techsofar.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5678\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9218,"href":"https:\/\/techsofar.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5678\/revisions\/9218"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techsofar.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/techsofar.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techsofar.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techsofar.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}