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Re: Power Distribution - Low current breakers or fuses?

Russ:

Yes - Breaker or Fuse, I don't care. My main point was that I have been unable to find any of these VB3 format protection devices below 20A.

Now that you have shown me the data sheet with values down to 3A, I know they exist [I suppose]... Where can we buy them though?

One final thought on breaker vs. fuse... I agree that breakers may be better for our needs in general because of the heavy inductive loads, stall currents, etc. But for the mundane low power control circuits with fixed well-behaved current draws, why spend $6.00 on a breaker when a $0.10 fuse would be perfectly fine.


-Tom

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