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From: jb@falstaff.mae.cwru.edu (Jim Berilla)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Subject: Re: Help Identify this part
Message-ID: <1991Feb5.030046.7705@usenet.ins.cwru.edu>
Date: 5 Feb 91 03:00:46 GMT
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In article <1991Feb4.135735.16848@mlb.semi.harris.com> jws@cica4.mlb.semi.harris.com (James W. Swonger) writes:
>It's a simple thermostat with a trip (open) point slightly above boiling
>(100C+??). It should be a dead short when cold. It should open up if you hold
>a lighter to it.

Close.  It's a thermaly activated electrical fuse, not a thermostat.  The
part number gives the opening temperature.  (I think it was ????165C, it
opens at 165 degrees C.)  Once open, it should never close again.  They're
put in coffee makers, etc. to keep the thing from catching fire if it runs
out of water.


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