A MacBook Pro can blow away with a cheap China Arduino clone (Apple has extra protection but it will cost a huge to repair). We are forced to depend on the circuit, circuit’s voltage control and cut off system. To be perfect, there should be inline fuse in USB cable for both for positive and GND. We dissected USB cable for the sake of a guide. There are companies who manufactures them but none ever think to add old good fuse with USB cable. But for ignorance, breadboard cartridge fuse and breadboard fuse holders are rare to ever see. ![]() Glass cartridge fuse with panel mount fuse holders are practical. Supply from mains is easy to use fuse – they are standard household fuses. We commonly see panel mount fuse holders on many electrical supply – they hold cartridge fuses inside a cylinder like enclosure and a top can be screwed with fingers to secure them in place. Fuseholders for cartridge fuses can be inline fuse holder, fuse clips, panel mount fuse holder. There are other types of fuses like SMD fuses, axial fuses, thermal Fuses, HRC fuse etc.įiltering more, for DIY works, you need to know only about the cartridge fuses, axial fuses and their fuseholders. Cartridge fuses typically a fuse wire enclosed inside a glass/plastic tube. ![]() But their form factor prevents to use them inside smaller compact panels where typically cartridge fuses are used. Obviously they are cheap at long run, convenient, heavy duty. They are usually made of ceramic with metal contacts and uses fuse wire. Types of Fuses, Fuseholders Used in DIY & HouseholdĪfter our so much filtering of types, remaining is ceramic fuses which are officially named semi-enclosed rewirable fuse (SERF). Interrupting rating (Breaking capacity).Time-current characteristic (fuse speed).Fuse, fuse holder, fuse wire have these parameters written – There are lot of complicated standards and confusions with fuses in industrial usage. In other words, we will not discuss about circuit breaker, thermal cutoff, resettable fuse, automotive fuses and rarely which types someone unlikely to face for DIY and household – we are towards the fuses which follows I square T equation. In this article we will only discuss about the types of fuses, fuseholders used in DIY & household electrical and electronics. There are complicated fuses in electronics and electrical like used inside the refrigerators. We commonly see “one time use” fuse, there is no actual with no AC, DC matter – they are simply a wire which follows the I square T equation and gets blown away upon crossing a given load. Obviously anything on this earth related to electrical can be divided in to : Thermal cutoffs are commonly found at the bottom of household things which has motors like food processor, washing machine, mixer grinder – a red coloured plastic rod becomes elongated upon overload. Resettable fuses are not the thing one may imagine from name – it is not the type with fuse wire. There are similar things like fuse named thermal cutoff, resettable fuse etc. Thomas Edison mentioned circuit breaker too in his patents. Circuit breakers commonly used now in apartments, households which essentially looks like a switch and automatically cuts off the power supply to circuit upon short circuit, overload. There is another similar thing named circuit breaker. Who discovered fuse that is not known, he added a standard and Louis Breguet recommended such thing in mid 1850. ![]() Thomas Edison has not discovered fuse too. ![]() Thomas Edison never discovered incandescent bulb but he discovered the Edison screw mount and modified filament. Fuse provides overcurrent protection to a circuit using basic theory.
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