[mdlug] 12V Overcurrent/voltage Protection

[Peter Bart]

Good Morning,
    I'm getting more and more stuff that has car chargers. The tipping
point was my new netbook. I figured it had an inline fuse in the
lighter plug. It does not, and neither do any of the other chargers I
dug up at home.  I remember these car chargers having a small inline
fuse, from days gone by. Am I being to paranoid? I'm thinking of
getting some adapters from Radio Shack; with the fuses in them; and
putting them on my car chargers. Fuses appropriate for the load of
course. The specific charger I'm talking about is the Asus brand car
charger <http://estore.asus.com/shop/item.asp?itemid=4446&catid=734>.
It has a transformer brick to step up voltage to 13 volts and lots of
references to supposed internal overcurrent/voltage protection. But
nothing official. What do the great minds at MDLUG think? I should
mention that almost every electric appliance in my house is plugged
into some sort of APC surge arrester/battery backup/voltage regulator.
My notebook power supplies have the small inline ones strapped right to
the brick. Any thoughts?

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Best Regards,

Peter The Plumber
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