# Breakers in place of fuses

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**Created:** [May 6, 2022, 5:00am UTC](https://sonexpilots.org/t/breakers-in-place-of-fuses/3998 "2022-05-06T05:00:00Z")\
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### 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](https://web.archive.org/web/20240821014946/https://www.amazon.com/Gloaso-Manual-Profile-Circuit-Breakers/dp/B07F9KJDWQ/ref=pd_bxgy_img_sccl_1/142-5777164-4493245)

Working up to a rewire behind the panel and while looking for “breaker/switch” combinations - came across these.

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### 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](https://web.archive.org/web/20240821014946/https://www.newark.com/te-connectivity-potter-brumfield/w51-a121b1-5/circuit-breaker-thermal-1p-125v/dp/08H0787)

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### 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

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### 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 🙂