From: "Mike McCarty" <Mike.McCarty@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Gene Heskett wrote:
On Tuesday 05 September 2006 12:25, Michael P. Brininstool wrote:
dictionary.com sez basically that fuse is the thing you light to blow
something up and the fuze is an electronic version of same.
And as a C.E.T. of 34 years, and chasing electrons for a living for 57 or
so, I have yet to see the hot wire device designed to open a circuit when
too much current flows called anything but a fuse, with an 's'. Thats not
Yep.
saying it couldn't be so spelled in other locales, but here, there's only
one way to spell it unless the writer failed spelling.
Then dictionary.com is wrong. A fuze is a device for detonating a
weapon. A fuse is an electrical device. I've been doing electronics
for 40 years, and *never* have encountered the term "fuze" to mean
an electronics component.
Furthermore, I looked in a "real" dictionary, and that's what it
verified.
As a precocious kid who has played with electricity and electronics
for over 55 years - "fuse" interrupts electrons or mates objects
together while "fuze" detonates. (A rough check of a '53 ARRL
handbook indicates it figured "fuse" was the object that interrupted
electron flow.)
{^_^} Joanne (Daddy discovered I could pay attention to his
instructions and had me doing "stuff" when I was about
four years old. Then he died and I started doing it ALL
for myself a couple years later due to impatience with the
adults around me.)
