upNdown
05-04-2018, 11:09 AM
I've read that taping fuse can make it burn faster. But I'm pretty sure I witnessed it have the opposite effect last year.
What I saw last year was this - me and my buddy fused up a few big boards together, and then we each fused our own separate small board individually, for a little competition. His didn't go well - the timing was all off; presumably his fuse burned too slow. I know he taped the crap out of his fuse on that board - he probably had every inch of fuse taped very tightly down to the plywood with duct tape.
Before you suggest that it was just some bad fuse, let me add that we used the same fuse on all the bigger boards and the timing was great - just about flawless. But there wasn't as much taping on those bigger boards.
Here's my hypothesis (based mostly on guesswork) - is it possible that if you tape down fuse loosely, leaving a small pocket of air around the fuse, you'll create a sort on a quickmatch effect, speeding up that fuse? And is it also possible that if you tape the fuse down very tightly, leaving virtually no air, it will slow down the burn rate of the fuse?
What I saw last year was this - me and my buddy fused up a few big boards together, and then we each fused our own separate small board individually, for a little competition. His didn't go well - the timing was all off; presumably his fuse burned too slow. I know he taped the crap out of his fuse on that board - he probably had every inch of fuse taped very tightly down to the plywood with duct tape.
Before you suggest that it was just some bad fuse, let me add that we used the same fuse on all the bigger boards and the timing was great - just about flawless. But there wasn't as much taping on those bigger boards.
Here's my hypothesis (based mostly on guesswork) - is it possible that if you tape down fuse loosely, leaving a small pocket of air around the fuse, you'll create a sort on a quickmatch effect, speeding up that fuse? And is it also possible that if you tape the fuse down very tightly, leaving virtually no air, it will slow down the burn rate of the fuse?