What direction should Hi Fi tune fuse be installed


What direction should Hi Fi Tuning fuses be installed? They have a little arrow and I would think it would point the direction of AC flow but maybe it points to the AC source?? SEEMS to sound better that way. I know someone will say put it the way it sound better but i have 3 fuses here. That is 6 possible ways. Not in the mood for that. The arrow must mean somethuing. What about Furutech? Thoughts welcome. keith
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Frogman wrote,

"How is it possible that Almarg's observation (that the current is alternating) was completely ignored. A case of "I believe what I believe and don't bother me with the facts?"

Then the net current is zero, no?
The actual signal itself, the one that carries the music information, the electromagnetic wave, is not alternating. Make sense?
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04-30-14: Geoffkait
Then the net current is zero, no?
No :-) What is zero, assuming no DC offset is present, is the net movement of electrons.

As your subsequent post sort of indicates you realize, power and energy, and in the case of signal conductors, musical information, are conducted unidirectionally, from source to load (assuming the load is resistive). During one half of each cycle, current flows in one direction, and during the next half of the cycle current flows in the opposite direction. Power is proportional to voltage times current, and that product is positive during both half-cycles (the product of two negatives being a positive), corresponding to transfer of power (and energy, which is proportional to power times time) in one direction (for a resistive load).

AC current is generally defined quantitatively on a Root Mean Square basis, corresponding to its ability to convey power and energy into a resistive load, and reflecting the fact that equal amounts of power and energy are conveyed during the positive and negative half-cycles (assuming, again, that no DC component is present).

However, I have yet to see a technically defensible explanation of how a fuse would have any "knowledge" of the direction in which power and energy are being conveyed through it.
04-30-14: Geoffkait
Education can be defined as what's left after you've forgotten everything you learned in school.
That's a cute saying, but it's not really true.

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-- Al