Hallo Hein hier,
Entschuldige das ich auf englich weiter gehe...mein Deutch ist
grausam...
First of all you should look for a schematic for a constant current
(source) not for an electronic fuse.
A fuse blows...it interrupts your supply when its maximum current is
exeeded.
Maybe that is what you want, but it's much better to use a constant
current circuit that allows YOU to adjust the max. current YOU allow to
flow into your experiment or load.
For a supply, the latter is what you need I think.
There are an abondance of powersupply (regulator) chips that can do this
for you. From heart I recall the L200... try and google >>L200 .pdf<<
I don't now your level of expertise, but allow me to warn you to take
good care with the heat dissapation with linear voltage and current
regulators.
What comes out of the transformer but goes NOT into your load has to go
somewhere, and heat it is. That's why power supplies are often fitted
with large heat sinks.
If you considder building a switchmode power supply with constant
current regulation whilst not finding your electronic fuse on the net,
than youre in bigger trouble than can to help you with.
So linear it is... big heatsink and happy hunting on
www.circuitcellar.com
bey, tjuss
Hein
PS1: the magazine elektor has released several electronic fuses.
PS2: Multi fuses (polyfuses)as mentioned by Ronny are only to be used
for short circuit currents, where currents rise to a multiple of the
nominal current. they are often to slow on 110-150% overload
conditions. Besides that you have to consider the (umgebungs wärme) for
they may kick in a lot to soon when operated in e.g. 60 degrees C or not
at all below freezing.
The cheapest autoresettable fuse would be a multi fuse well selected and
than thermally connected to the voltage regulating (pass) transistor.
That way the pass transistor pre-heats the multi fuse... very cheap...
but slow on resetting.