To fuse or not to fuse!

[Simeon]

@Blise518B

I think if you build and configure everything properly you just get extra safety without any real downsides.

Perfext example of this:

@janpom

The VESC shut down and I wasn’t able to start it again. So I opened the board to find out the battery fuse has blown. That was a bit unexpected. I measured the continuity on the VESC input to assert it’s not shorted. It wasn’t. So I went ahead and replaced the fuse; then I carefully reconnected the VESC. Nothing bad happened at that point. However, when I pushed the start button it burst into flames. Fortunately the new fuse blew almost instantly and stopped the fire.

the fuse cut the power and prevented the vesc from burning down the whole enclosure insides