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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:   
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   > 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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