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liquidspaceman
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Jun 08, 2013

Any Drawbacks to Using Circuit Breaker instead of Fuse?

Hello, I recently wired up a 400 watt inverter near my dinette that runs directly off the battery. I did use an inline fuse rated at 40 amps but was wondering if there was any drawback to using a c...
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MPD56
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Jun 08, 2013
Just my opinion! One thing about the breaker you posted is they are auto resetting and should have a fuse protecting them, these breakers are good for circuits with motors and sometimes cause a high current on start-up or if they jam. If you do get a fault on the inverter circuit, it will keep resetting and what happens if you are not there?

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