Yes I am going to run wires and foam tape a fuse holder to the small ledge at the bottom of the opening.
That was an interesting soldering video. Thank you Soldertec Jon
Hey Richard,
I'm just trying to help, I'm sorry to hear about your problem, and how it has escalated.
Many times on here people have posted about the misting-blur problem, and some time when they change or wiggle the print head cables, it fixes the misting-blur problem.
However there are times (like yours), when the fuse gets blown, by either shorting one of the connectors and there is residual current left in the cable or it gets zapped by static electricity. Not sure what caused your fuse to blow, however because your printer is on carpet, I'm thinking it was a static charge generated when you walked on the carpet, (just a guess). There are ways to prevent this from happening, read all my posts.
Yes, I am more anal about static damage to electrical components then most people on here because I worked for Texas Instruments for 17 years and we were BRAIN-WASHED daily about the problem. The whole 360,000 s/f of the manufacturing facility floor was covered with a special coated carpet that was conductive and grounded, all rolling carts had grounding chains dragging on the carpet, and all employees had to wear special conductive sole shoes or install grounding straps on their street shoes.
Static was our biggest enemy bar none, I found some old photos I took (below) of some of the SMT machines we had.
