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Default I Built and Used My First Incandescent Bulb Current-Limiter

This was used for a guitar amp that was continually
blowing slow-blow fuses instantly upon turning the amp
on.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k5oNQ1etN2c

In my case, the bulb would briefly light up, and then
fade out within about a second. I read this meant the
amp was normal, and didn't have a short to ground, and
when I plugged the amp into the wall normally, I was able
to trouble-shoot it normally.

But I would assume the bulb lighting up initially, is due
to the initial in-rush current, that charges up the electrolytic
filtering caps, on the outputs of the rectifiers?

Because the initial 1 second flash only happened with a
linear power supply guitar amp, and did not happen with
my switched-mode guitar amp. With the latter, the bulb
never glowed noticeably, even at turn-on.
 
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