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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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Wayne_Dohnal
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Jun 08, 2013
SaltiDawg wrote:

No hassle intended, but everything I know screams never put breakers in parallel. Is this done commonly in RVs? (I'm not an RVer.)
My intuition screams the same thing. I'm even suspicious of paralleled fuses, but I see it done so often that I'm assuming somebody must have determined that it works ok.

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