818 Electrical And Solar can assist you in making your premises safer.
Electricity is used in many of the devices to create comfort in your home. Look around – air conditioning, solar, hot water tanks, stoves – they all run on electricity.
It is critical to have a variety of safety mechanisms to protect against fire and electric shocks should any of these devices malfunction. We can install and upgrade a number of safety devices such as circuit breakers, fuses and smoke alarms.
Both fuses and circuit breakers serve as the point of contact between the electricity network and a specific building.
Fuses
A fuse is a type of electrical safety device that helps protect an electrical circuit from overcurrent. During heavy loads, fuses are damaged to avoid the electricity to travel across and overload the cabling/ device etc.
Fuses are created to allow current through the circuit, but if the current exceeds a certain maximum benefit, the wire burns out, and the circuit is no longer functional.
The Fuse Amperage is the amount of current that will cause a fuse to blow. Fuses have a voltage rating, which specifies the voltage level difference that the fuse can tolerate.
As a general rule a fuse installation is less expensive than a circuit breaker installation, because the circuit breakers are a more sophisticated long-term solution.
As fuse wire needs to be replaced by a qualified person, fuses will have greater ongoing operating costs compared to circuit breakers. For this and other reasons fuses in many cases have now been replaced more and more by circuit breakers.
Circuit breakers
Are the standard in modern switchboards because they are not damaged during heavy load, but simply trip and break the electricity flow. When the issue that caused the tripping has been resolved, circuit breakers can easily be reset.
Circuit breakers are also regarded as safer because they cannot be easily disabled by the consumer. Circuit breakers are classified into three types.
Thermal will react to heat generated by overload current circumstances. Magnetic will react to the magnetic field created by fault current conditions.
Thermo-magnetic will react to both the heat and magnetic field produced by overload current circumstances. This is the comparable circuit breaker to a slow blow fuse.
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