Fuse or circuit breaker?
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Originally Posted by moog
The system I had in my last car, the installer used a 100amp Phoenix Gold circuit breaker instead of a fuse. Is anyone else using a circuit breaker in their car?
Hate messing with fuses...
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Understand that fuse and circuit breakers have different time reaction speeds. A fuse blows much faster where a breaker will suffer a bit longer before tripping. Depending on the fuse that number can be like 250% of rated current for many seconds. Just something to be aware of.
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Originally Posted by Paul350Z
Understand that fuse and circuit breakers have different time reaction speeds. A fuse blows much faster where a breaker will suffer a bit longer before tripping. Depending on the fuse that number can be like 250% of rated current for many seconds. Just something to be aware of.
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Originally Posted by 350xfire
Well, I think typical installs have a fuse or breaker at the battery, then a fuse at the distribution block and the amps are also fused at the units. Since there are still 2 fuses, I don't think it would be a problem with a slow breaker.
IN my case, i run a "0" guage pwr wire from the battery to my distribution block. This type of cable will accomodate a huge amount of current, so I have to have a 120a crkt breaker. At the distribution block I use 60a fuses. Much smaller current rating, but not too much current is being drawn from the block to each individual amp via the 4-gauge pwr cables.
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