Synergistic Red Fuse ...

In the spirit of innovation and "what can be" the fuse holder is important for several well understood reasons which include; 

Quote from DIY audio site that is remarkably forward thinking;

"On other equipment, I went through the trouble of making a few fuse holders to experiment with. My experiments revealed the importance of contact surface area, material, plating, contact pressure, wire termination mechanics, attachment of fuse holder to chassis, with best results achieved with high contact pressure, copper-plated brass, cylindrical fuse holder with crimp fitting for wiring, and teflon outer dialectric.
Somebody once mentioned that perhaps Furutech or some other company should manufacture an audio-grade fuse holder one day, since the existing options for these are really unimpressive from anything else but a safety perspective. Does anyone know of any audio-grade fuse holder for 5 x 20m fuses?"

In 5 years perhaps all of our gear will benefit from better fuses, fuse holders, and a slew of other improvements coming from the minds of those who are intentionally curious and innovative today.  All you detractors, as humorous and fun to read as you are, also benefit from these very ideas, past and present. Hope you realize this. Today you joke about fuses or fuse holders and tomorrow they will be better designed and enjoyed by all. Today we benefit from advances that were ridiculed in the past. Innovators and early adopters should be thanked. Wether graphene, power transfer technology, or whatever, those who are opened minded and open to learning at least stand a chance of improving technology for the rest of us. 

Sure, you guys owe us in the fuse crowd a big thank you😊

Some things are taken for granted.
It's always been there so why investigate it?
It's always worked so why improve upon it?
It's not appreciated since it might lessen my contribution.
Using that logic, we could have all stopped improving things eons ago.

Another consideration that's overlooked is if there'd been serious R&D into something considered so insignificant that there's no real standardization of it's implementation, and advances made beyond "good enough" were achieved, other components downstream needn't have had such development to overcome the problems that came along from that something, considered so insignificant.....

All the best,
Nonoise

At what point will the naysayers promote the abolition of the patent department? :-)

Hi Frank,

As a point of information, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office does not verify that an invention that is the subject of a patent application works as claimed. Although they will refuse to grant a patent for an invention that is patently impossible, pun intended :-) A classic example being any form of a perpetual motion machine.

BTW and FWIW, regarding the indication at the AH website of a patent pending for their fuse technology, I had used the search features at uspto.gov to search for both granted patents and patent applications, using various terms relating to the name of the company and its proprietor. My search came up empty-handed.

Best regards,
-- Al
(Licensed but non-practicing patent attorney)

Al, I hereby award you the first Dick Tracy Award for detective work above and beyond the call of duty. It almost sounds like you're making some sort of comparison between aftermarket fuses and perpetual motion machines but maybe I'm reading too much into your post.