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liquidspaceman
Explorer
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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time2roll
Nomad
Jun 09, 2013
When I was a kid I had a race between an Edison base fuse and a breaker. Screwed the 15a fuse into a lamp. Turned the lamp on.
20a breaker opened, 15a fuse was intact.


My preference is to stay away from self resetting breakers.

Class T fuse is slow to open so size it a little tight IMO.

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