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Title: How should the fuse or or circuit breaker be placed in the circuit in order to properly protect the circuit? Post by: darkspirt on May 9, 2013 A. In parallel.
B. In series C. It depends on whether the souce current is AC or DC. D. Either series or parallel--it doesn't matter. Title: How should the fuse or or circuit breaker be placed in the circuit in order to properly protect the circuit? Post by: DarkTakeda on May 9, 2013 Do yourself a favor--call an electrician.
Title: How should the fuse or or circuit breaker be placed in the circuit in order to properly protect the circuit? Post by: leepbcc on May 9, 2013 in series so when it breaks the current is interrupted
Title: How should the fuse or or circuit breaker be placed in the circuit in order to properly protect the circuit? Post by: smiley on May 9, 2013 B.
Title: How should the fuse or or circuit breaker be placed in the circuit in order to properly protect the circuit? Post by: leelo on May 9, 2013 Series. The whole point of such a device is to open (break) the circuit, effectively shutting down the circuit when the designated safe current level is exceeded. With luck, that happens before the excess current has a chance to destroy anything.
If you put the breaker in parallel with the load, it may as well not be there. Even if the fuse or breaker goes off, the circuit remains complete, and will keep going at this elevated current level until the whole thing fries. |