I've read somewhere that someone smoked their amp simply by under fusing it. the wiring and all the connections were correct size and done well, he simply put a smaller fuse in line that he probably should have. fuses don't blow until a current well over the rating is put through it for a length of time, and that had something to do with it from what i understand.

is this right, if someone has a system that draws about 40-50 amps, would it be better to put a 100 amp fuse inline or would a 60a fuse suffice? can this really harm your gear?

I've read somewhere that someone smoked their amp simply by under fusing it. the wiring and all the connections were correct size and done well, he simply put a smaller fuse in line that he probably should have. fuses don't blow until a current well over the rating is put through it for a length of time, and that had something to do with it from what i understand.

is this right, if someone has a system that draws about 40-50 amps, would it be better to put a 100 amp fuse inline or would a 60a fuse suffice? can this really harm your gear?

my thinking behind it was i know that i had much trouble years ago with an undersized power wire with a overpowered system. i was trying to power 2 amps that are about 800 watts combined power with an 8 guage wire. my lights were dimming real bad when i turned the volume up and when i used a DMM at the amps terminals, the voltage was dropping to about 10v. i know if you run an amp at a low voltage, that can harm the amp.

so using a smaller than required fuse (inline with a sufficient wire size) wouldn't lower the overall voltage that the power lead carries? i'm not much of an electrical theorist.