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|    Phil Allison to Dave Platt    |
|    Re: Can anyone explain how this battery     |
|    14 Feb 22 15:29:22    |
      From: pallison49@gmail.com               Dave Platt wrote:        =============       >       >       > My guess is that schematic misinterprets the nature of the yellow       > disc.              ** You been sleeping ?        That was obvious two days ago.              >I suspect that it's not a capacitor at all, but is a       > positive-temperature-coefficient thermistor - a "soft fuse".              ** The trade name is " Polyfuse ".               They show very low cold resistances and will snap to a high value when hot.        Used for loudspeaker, battery pak and transformer protection.        Slow acting but self resetting, many times.                            ..... Phil              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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