Found an old AG car fuse

[noparlpf]

I just found an old-school car fuse on the floor of my car. The little 5mmx20mm glass tube type that hasn't really been used since the '80s. But my car is an '08 Toyota and I think these fuses were primarily used by North American manufacturers... What else still uses these things? It says T1AL250VP.

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[Grinner]

Car chargers for portable electronics.

Edit: I dismantled one once and found one of those behind the contact-nub-thingy.

[noparlpf]

Car chargers for portable electronics.

Edit: I dismantled one once and found one of those behind the contact-nub-thingy.

Huh. The cable for my mum's old GPS broke (I found the contact and a spring but it did seem like something else should have fit inside) but that was years ago and I've vacuumed the car since. I guess it's remotely possible that it got wedged in somewhere and just jostled loose recently. Weird.

Anything else you know of that still uses these?

[Grinner]

Anything else you know of that still uses these?

Nope. whitespace

[hajo]

found an old-school car fuse .. little 5mmx20mm glass tube .. T1AL250VP.
What else still uses these things?
See Wikipedia: Fuse_electrical (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuse_(electrical)) and Fuse_automotive (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuse_(automotive))

[Gnoman]

Those things are used in stereos, speakers, AC-to-DC converters, PLCs, GPS,. and thousands of other electronic devices. They're incredibly common.