MIKE ROSS wrote in a message to Roy J. Tellason:

 RJT> Oh!  That sounds like one of those circuit breakers...  I have a few
 RJT> of them around here someplace that I took out of a Heathkit audio amp
 RJT> I scrapped out some years ago.  Ever see those light bulbs that flash?
 RJT> Same principle,  it's self-resetting,  unless you seriously overload
 RJT> it,  which it sounds like you did.

 MR> I recall those Heathkit glass-bulb breakers had a 3 amp rating...
 MR> Indeed, they were self-resetting but would eventually burn out if
 MR> the main fuse didn't... :-(

3 amp?  My recollection of this is pretty fuzzy,  but it seems to me that
there was more than one rating in there.  I dunno,  maybe I'll dig a little
and see what turns up...

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