can overheating blow a fuse?

ive blown yet another fuse in the mpc. i left it on accidentally when i left for the weekend. came back 2 days later, realized it was on, tried to continue what i had going and the screen went blank. blown fuse. i touched the heatsick and DAMN the shit is HOT. like u cant leave ur hand on it for more than 2 seconds. could this be the reason this fuse blew? its been working fine for a couple weeks now. if it is the problem, is there any kind of fan i can use?

with no real knowledge, i'd say yes..

i got a 16ch mixer that i had on top of a class a technics amp, one night i was driving the amp hard for a long time and the mixer fried. got it fixed for free but this lead me to believe heat & equipment are not the best of friends..

i hate when you bail your spot, or plan just to pop out but come back days later with equipment still on.

Was this the same machine you had the power supply issue with a few months ago? Did you ever have it repaired?

The power supply in my 3000 definitely gets warm but not too hot to touch. As for your fuse blowing, I would suspect that something else may be causing the overheating issues -- perhaps bad/dying rectifier, bad/dying voltage regulators or something else may be shorted out. Ceramic fuses tend to withstand a little more heat than glass ones.

Keep in mind that electronic components don't particularly work well when they are stressed thermally -- you may introduce new problems with excessive heat -- if it happens again I would have someone look at it.

or you could get an intercooler for ya mpc with pipes going into the cpu and a big ass fan to cool your nuts with..

MPCHunter wrote:Was this the same machine you had the power supply issue with a few months ago? Did you ever have it repaired?

The power supply in my 3000 definitely gets warm but not too hot to touch. As for your fuse blowing, I would suspect that something else may be causing the overheating issues -- perhaps bad/dying rectifier, bad/dying voltage regulators or something else may be shorted out. Ceramic fuses tend to withstand a little more heat than glass ones.

Keep in mind that electronic components don't particularly work well when they are stressed thermally -- you may introduce new problems with excessive heat -- if it happens again I would have someone look at it.

yea did have it repaired. and the fuses are glass. this shit gets burning hot. its a whole new power board i had put in so... im hoping there were no issues with it. i guess i should look into ceramic fuses or just find a way to keep it cool