Breakers in place of fuses
Posted: Fri May 06, 2022 7:35 am
by GraemeSmith
Anyone have any experience with / comments about Low Profile ATC Fuse Breakers?
Like these:
https://www.amazon.com/Gloaso-Manual-Pr … 64-4493245
Working up to a rewire behind the panel and while looking for “breaker/switch” combinations - came across these.
Re: Breakers in place of fuses
Posted: Fri May 06, 2022 10:09 pm
by mike.smith
I use these, of whichever amps I need:
https://www.newark.com/te-connectivity- … dp/08H0787
Re: Breakers in place of fuses
Posted: Sun May 08, 2022 8:45 am
by GordonTurner
Hi Mike.
Took a look at these just to see what you guys were talking about. It seems like the specs show a surprisingly imprecise behavior for overamp tripping, for example, a 300% overload will trip in between one and ten seconds. Is this common? Or is this indicative of not great quality construction?
Not meant to be a critique, these are nice looking switches, just curious.
Gordon
Re: Breakers in place of fuses
Posted: Sun May 08, 2022 9:03 am
by mike.smith
I’ve only had 1 trip in all the time I’ve had them. The EIFS switch tripped because of a short. So it did it’s job. With all electrical systems being witchcraft and voodoo to me, that’s all I know 