FUSE

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WHAT IS A
FUSE?
"fusus"

"to melt."
 A fuse is an electrical safety device
that protects an electric circuit from
excessive electric current. Fuses are
destroyed during overload conditions. It's
cheaper to install fuses than circuit
breakers, but since fuses need to be
replaced and circuit breakers don't, fuses
have a higher operational cost.
Fuses are designed to allow current
through the circuit, but in the event that
the current exceeds some maximum
value it will burn out the wire, so that
there is no longer a circuit. The current
that will cause a fuse to blow is called
the current rating.
W H A T I S T H E S U P P LY USED IN
THE PHILIPPINES?

220V
TYPES OF
FUSES
Plug type
Ferrule type
Knife- blade type
Screw type

ACCORDING T O CONSTRUCTION
PLUG
TYPE
Screwed directly into
a standard fuse
socket.
FERRULE
TYPE Contains a thin conductor designed to
melt at a low temperature. Once the
current reaches a level that can
generate enough heat to match or
surpass the designed melting point, the
connection will break.
KNIFE- BLADE
TYPE
Contains two electrical
connectors that plug into a circuit
and a wire inside that will melt at
a certain current
 Referred to as a rejection base (also called
SCREW type-S), it requires an adapter to fit into a
standard fuse socket. Once it is installed it
TYPE cannot be removed. Fuses with different
current ratings will have different threads;
therefore, they cannot be replaced with a
fuse of a different current rating.
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