The Point of Fuses
Fuses are to protect wiring, correct? If that is really so then I have a question posed as an example. Suppose I have a 55 amp converter. It is connected to a bank of batteries with 4 ft of #4 wire. ~...
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wildtoad wrote:
To my way of thinking fuses/circuit breakers have two functions. One is to protect the device at the end of the wire from getting too much current and frying.
Not really - current doesn't get pushed down a wire; it gets pulled by the load. And if the load is getting too much current it is because there is a problem in the load, and that problem is one of the things that the fuse/circuit breaker is there for.
