14 GA or 16 GA Fusible Link?

AJ/FormS said
While that works;
Is that gonna get you home on a dark and stormy night?
Fusible links are NOT like fuses. It usually takes quite a while for an F-link to sacrifice themselves; small overloads could go un-noticed for years; while a blown fuse could lead to multiple replacements, eventually leading to the installation of a fuse much too big, offering no protection at all.

Uh, no. Is that why fuseable links links are used in your home or industry and anywhere else. There are slow blow fuses for momentary spikes and surges. A blown fuse indicates a problem how you deal with the problem is up to you. Fuseable link is nothing more than link of smaller gauge sized to fuse first, nothing more.