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Fuse Failure

Burned Fuse
Burned Fuse

The electric water heater in the rental house stopped working. I found this in the fusebox.

Looks like it’d been simmering for a while!

Fuses never (uh, rarely) fail as shorts, but sometimes they don’t fail open. The block and fuse box don’t look overheated and seem to be OK, but, sheesh…