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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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OnaQuest
Explorer
Jun 08, 2013
Not so fast......

My Bounder has two of these manual reset breakers (in parallel) connecting the converter and load panel to the batteries. All current, to and from, the batteries passes thru these breakers. The are now 16 years old and have never failed.

If the breaker is truly the correct size for your application, install it near the battery end of the cable and forget it. It's not only acceptable, but it's quite practical.

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