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Determining current flow to install "audiophile" fuses.

There are 4 fuses in my Odyssey Stratos amp. I recently returned some AMR fuses because they rolled off the highs and lows a little too much for me. Mids were excellent though. Anyway, I'm getting ready to try the Hi-Fi Tuning Classic Gold fuses, as they are on clearance now for $10/ea. Are they any good? However, I have read that they are a directional fuse? Can anyone confirm this? If that is the case, does anyone know the current flow for the Odyssey Stratos? Or, does anyone know how figure out current flow by opening up the top and looking at the circuitry? 


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geoffkait
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George, please don’t put words in my mouth. I’m not referring to ICs with shields as that’s a different issue. I’m referring to ICs without shields. They are directional and have always been directional. And for the same reason that all fuses are directional. By the way I totally get the backfire effect. No worries.

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This can also depended on how the sometimes many +- conductors what way they are twisted together over meters which have inductance, capacitance and resistance , there is only ONE conductor in a fuse that's only 1/2" long!!!!!!!!!!!!.


Cheers George

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George, obviously unless the cable manufacturer keeps track of the directionality of all wire the result will not be satisfactory.  If a cable manufacturer knows what he's doing having multiple conductors in a cable is not going to be a problem.  

pop quiz, are stranded cables directional? Are power cords directional?

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Power cables have three wires, re-read my last post, sorry but you are becoming a lost cause, and can't see the forest through the trees


Cheers George

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George wrote,

"Power cables have three wires, re-read my last post, sorry but you are becoming a lost cause, and can’t see the forest through the trees."

In my defense power cords can often have only two "wires." Both of which are almost always stranded. And both of which, like all wires, are directional. Follow? As for the third wire, isn’t that the ground? I.e., it’s not really a conductor.

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