Slug

[ptonsparky]

Looking for a 100 amp 600v slug. Supplier is 3 weeks and $85. Newark is $100+ and 45 days.

No wonder I see so many flattened copper pipes.

Any one know of a more reasonable source?

 

[Strathead]

Looking for a 100 amp 600v slug. Supplier is 3 weeks and $85. Newark is $100+ and 45 days.

No wonder I see so many flattened copper pipes.

Any one know of a more reasonable source?

What is a slug?

 

[jumper]

What is a slug?

Also called a dummy or no-blow fuse:

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[petersonra]

Looking for a 100 amp 600v slug. Supplier is 3 weeks and $85. Newark is $100+ and 45 days.

No wonder I see so many flattened copper pipes.

Any one know of a more reasonable source?

what kind of fuse holder do you want it to fit?

 

[Besoeker]

Ignorant Brit strikes again.....

The slug is a unit of mass in Imperial measurements.
Or a nasty slimey mollusc you don't want in your garden
There is even a pub chain called The Slug and Lettuce

But I suspect that's not whaat you had in mind...........

 

[ptonsparky]

Grounded delta systems require the grounded leg to be slugged in the Pump Panel. For these, the PP is the Service Equipment. Fused equipment, not CBs.

 

[ptonsparky]

what kind of fuse holder do you want it to fit?

100 amp 480volt.

 

[petersonra]

100 amp 480volt.

class J? RK1?

 

[ptonsparky]

RK

 

[GoldDigger]

The use of "slug" is related to its use as a base metal disk the same size as a coin, intended to fool vending machines.
Also used to refer to the blank from which a coin is struck.

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[Coppersmith]

What is a slug?

That what Popeye does to Bluto when Olive Oil starts screaming.

 

[Strathead]

The use of "slug" is related to its use as a base metal disk the same size as a coin, intended to fool vending machines.
Also used to refer to the blank from which a coin is struck.

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And that makes it all make sense. As I am guessing then it was first used in electrical when either an actual slug or a penny as a slug was used to defeat an Edison fuse that kept blowing.

 

[ptonsparky]

Found these in my stuff I've collected over the years.

 

[Fulthrotl]

Ignorant Brit strikes again.....

The slug is a unit of mass in Imperial measurements.
.

careful.... next he'll be talking about BS and Whitworth.....

not even considering BTU's....

 

[Jraef]

Found these in my stuff I've collected over the years.

You collect old peanuts? :lol:

 

[Jraef]

A "slug" was also the term we used for the round metal piece that comes out of a knockout of a metal handy box. When I was a kid and housing tracts were going up faster than corn grows, we used to visit the jobsites at night with magnets on strings to collect nails and slugs. We would file the little tab off of the slugs because in some old vending machines, you could pass them as nickles. We would put the nails in coffee cans and sell them for a dime on Friday nights by setting up a little stand on the side of the road that everyone used for commuting home, guys doing home projects on the upcoming weekend would buy them.

 

[drcampbell]

... Any one know of a more reasonable source?

Is it reasonable to jumper across one fuseholder with a white/grey wire?

 

[Coppersmith]

Is it reasonable to jumper across one fuseholder with a white/grey wire?

When I read that, my brain translated it into "Is it reasonable to stick a penny into a fusebox?"

 

[ActionDave]

Found these in my stuff I've collected over the years.

That is an A+ work around and clearly done by an above average hack.

Where did you find that? When was the last time anybody related to the location you found that visited Colorado?

 

[ptonsparky]

The 30 Amp 'Not a fuse' was in stock, on the shelf, where it belonged. The 100 to 30 reducers, new in a box had to be "found". They came from a retired electrician that could find no other person dumb enough to take take his leftovers. The shelves are labeled LS for Larry's S...