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Subject:Re: thermoelectric cooler problems
From:The Bus Depot
Date:Sun, 5 May 2002 17:17:06 -0400

> bought one of those igloo thermoelectric coolers...
> well, i plugged it into my lighter and it blew the cig lighter/radio fuse.
..
> the package says that it draws less then 6 amps, but on my 90
> gl the cig lighter fuse is 15 amps.  what is going on here?

The element could be shorted.  I know someone whose unit when bad that way.
It presented a dead short, so it would instantly blow any fuse. Perhaps you
simply got a defective unit.

- Ron Salmon
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