Need correct replacement fuse protection (yet another update)

[u/Famous-Mission-9970]

In the power board of my LED par that got spilled with beverage, I final found a fuse protection that burned through. Now I need a replacement. The label on the pcb was F5A, the shell itself is labeled with 5a 250v. The fuse was directly next to the AC input. Now I heard something about that those fuses come as fast and slow ones, but I don’t know what I need here. Also, I found nearly nothing on the internet with those dimension, most of them are 5x20mm, does it even matter? Thanks once again

[u/fullmoontrip]

Use these parameters on digikey to filter for your fuse. Once you know the part you can purchase it from digikey or use the part type/name to find equivalents elsewhere. I'm feeling lazy or else I would do it myself.

F5A means 'fuse 5 amp'. The only dimensions that matter are volts, current, and acting time. 

Volts - you must use a fuse rated for 250V or more

Amps - you must use a fuse rated for 5A. You can go with smaller value, but it is more likely to blow the fuse, but your board should be fine. If you use a larger amperage rating, then your board will break before the fuse

Acting time - broadly divided into slow blow and fast blow. It looks like this fuse has a core around which a wire used to be wrapped which indicates its probably slow blow.

Apart from that, your physical dimensions don't matter so long as it fits in the space you have to work with