Installed my newly restored Wonderbar today. Geez, it gets harder and harder to work under the dash. Radio plays fine. It brought me back to experience the slight delay for sound to come on after the radio is turned on. Today, everything electronic is solid state. Something immediately happens when the thing is turned on. With the old radios there is a slight delay until something happens. That's the good news.
Bad news is that the Wonderbar will work once until it blows a fuse. I can send it back to the rebuilder. But I'm not looking forward to taking the radio out again after I just got it in. Before I do that, I'd like to rule out the fuse. I know I have the wrong fuse because it's too short. The manual calls for a 7.5 amp AGC fuse. The only ones I have with a 7.5 amp rating are an SFE type. What's the difference between an "AGC" type and an "SFE" type?
The SFE ones I have are short and stubby ones - shorter than all the other fuses. I can get it to fit and stay in the holder only by carefully positioning it. I'm wondering if the length or the type makes any difference. Or, are all 7.5 amp fuses the same?
Bad news is that the Wonderbar will work once until it blows a fuse. I can send it back to the rebuilder. But I'm not looking forward to taking the radio out again after I just got it in. Before I do that, I'd like to rule out the fuse. I know I have the wrong fuse because it's too short. The manual calls for a 7.5 amp AGC fuse. The only ones I have with a 7.5 amp rating are an SFE type. What's the difference between an "AGC" type and an "SFE" type?
The SFE ones I have are short and stubby ones - shorter than all the other fuses. I can get it to fit and stay in the holder only by carefully positioning it. I'm wondering if the length or the type makes any difference. Or, are all 7.5 amp fuses the same?
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