{"id":12055,"date":"2017-05-31T23:20:03","date_gmt":"2017-06-01T06:20:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/?p=12055"},"modified":"2017-06-02T10:42:36","modified_gmt":"2017-06-02T17:42:36","slug":"2017-05-31-tbd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/?p=12055","title":{"rendered":"2017-05-31 Is This a Thermal Fuse?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have a bunch of these Ni-MH battery packs with 5 cells per pack for 6 volts. I want to use them to power 5 volt devices, so I remove one cell. &nbsp;The metal straps are spot welded between cells, and the metal strip shown in the photo is between cells. &nbsp;It has two strips of metal that overlap. with labeled heat shrink tube around both strips. &nbsp;I am thinking this is a thermal fuse, to protect the cells from overheating. &nbsp;But I can&#8217;t remember ever seeing one like this. &nbsp;Any ideas?<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"img_container_13\" class=\"img_container\"><progress id=\"progress_13\" value=\"0.14\" class=\"wp_media_indicator\" contenteditable=\"false\"><\/progress><\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/IMG_20170531_2339292.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/IMG_20170531_2339292.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12057 alignnone size-full\" width=\"1172\" height=\"1172\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/IMG_20170531_2339292.jpg 1172w, https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/IMG_20170531_2339292-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/IMG_20170531_2339292-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/IMG_20170531_2339292-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/IMG_20170531_2339292-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/IMG_20170531_2339292-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1172px) 100vw, 1172px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have a bunch of these Ni-MH battery packs with 5 cells per pack for 6 volts. I want to use them to power 5 volt devices, so I remove one cell. &nbsp;The metal straps are spot welded between cells, and the metal strip shown in the photo is between cells. &nbsp;It has two strips<a href=\"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/?p=12055\"> <\/p>\n<p> (Read More&#8230;)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12055","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12055"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12055\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12063,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12055\/revisions\/12063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}