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Old 02-27-2005, 12:53 AM
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i have no idea what that means.
Most of the units I have seen that do not have a fuse are home made units for cooling water in hydroponics. the problem that arises if you don't have a fuse is say you have a max draw of 5 amps for your unit. now you get a partial short in the wiring and it starts drawing 13 amps. not enuf to trip your breaker but enuf to start the wiring that is rated for 5 amps to catch fire and possibly burn down your house.

with out the safety feature of a fuse or a thermal breaker you can not get it approved for electrical use in Canada or the US.

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Old 02-28-2005, 12:35 AM
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I am not sure what you guys are doing that is giving you so many problems......

I bought a CL280 5 months ago and it has never blown a fuse yet.

I used 1" female adaptors on the unit with 1" slip x 3/4" fipt reducer bushings to 3/4" barb 90's, run off my main return pump.

It's sitting right beside my tank and my computer makes twice the heat the chiller does.

Never had a single problem since install.
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Old 02-28-2005, 12:58 PM
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I am not sure what you guys are doing that is giving you so many problems......
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we already corrected it a long time ago. to little water flow through the chiller was the culprit.

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Old 06-04-2005, 05:46 AM
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ok so now that we had that heat wave I have blowen 3 fuses in 4or 5 days. cleaning the pump now to see if that helps.

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Old 06-05-2005, 07:14 PM
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just sent off an e-mail about the fuse popping and hopefully I will get some help there. Pacific coast importers are not the manufactures hopefully they will give me the name of them so I can talk to them directly as they state they will do in there warenty policy.

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Steve, have you looked at expandig the size of the intake/output fittings to allow greater flow? This was described in one of my threads on RC...
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Hey Steve , don't bother E-mailling them just give them a call with the 1-800 number on the chiller . They are VERY helpful people
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I didn't find them helpful at all, really. They insisted on blaming my setup for the fuses, nothing else.
For the most part, most complaints of this happening have been resolved with more flow through the chiller.
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to be fair, most people report the same as you. I guess after blowing 15 fuses, and not getting anything from them, I just gave up.
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