The pro-fuse argument makes sense to me except for one
thing: A breaker gives you a positive indication that it
interrupted the circuit. A fuse, particularly a hidden fuse, gives you no
indication.
I thought that would be bad because I'm left to diagnose a
problem with incomplete information. e.g. my trim isn't working -
is it something I can do something about or is the trim servo toasted?
You fuse guys must have thought about this. What's the
counter-argument?
Colyn,
You have a good point if you intend/need to troubleshoot while
still in the air. As I noted in my original post, many years of doing this in
military fighters (as a weapon systems operator—with a well qualified
pilot still flying the jet and typically swearing because his xyz was not
working) convinced me that this was (in my experience) a totally pointless
exercise. I’m pretty sure I never recovered a system by resetting a CB,
and I once caused a fire in the cockpit, and killed a generator another time.
Still, I’ve heard that others have successfully recovered systems by
resetting CB’s. So in the end, you make your own tradeoffs/decisions.
Everything is a compromise at some level…
Bob