Request for electrical calculation/conversion help
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Request for electrical calculation/conversion help
Can anyone help me determine a conversion/correlation between a fusible link and a fuse/circuit breaker? What I'd like to know is what size fuse or circuit breaker would trip at the same point as a 20ga. fusible link would?
Thanks for any help or direction.
Thanks for any help or direction.
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Furse, ckt brkr, fusible link are all temperature related/ melting metal devices.... with the ckt brkr obviously being a distortion of metal under heat, then reset sometimes automatically.......
I don't think there is a direct correlation between fusible link and the other two.....a plain fuse reacts the fastest, and the fusible link is the slowest of the bunch....
I suspect a 20 ga link is about equivalent to a 5-7 amp fuse....
GENE
I don't think there is a direct correlation between fusible link and the other two.....a plain fuse reacts the fastest, and the fusible link is the slowest of the bunch....
I suspect a 20 ga link is about equivalent to a 5-7 amp fuse....
GENE
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From: Wichita KS
Originally Posted by ettev
Can anyone help me determine a conversion/correlation between a fusible link and a fuse/circuit breaker? What I'd like to know is what size fuse or circuit breaker would trip at the same point as a 20ga. fusible link would?
Thanks for any help or direction.
Thanks for any help or direction.
I think you want to keep a fusible link rather than a CB or regular fuse. The fusible links react slower. I don't think GM used fusible links just for the hell of it.
http://www.madelectrical.com/catalog/fusible-link.shtml
