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High Voltage: circuit breaker is cheaper!

June 27th, 2011 | 9 Comments | Posted in Electrical distribution
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Find below a new update from Richard Douglas on the debate between circuit-breaker or fuse !

Laurent

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ringmaster outdoorI would like to come back to the debate of last year about MV/LV transformer protection using circuit-breakers or fuses.

There were a lot of comments confirming my opinion that circuit-breakers are the best MV/LV transformer protection solution.

However, there  were also comments, and that was the debate, that promote fuses as the preferred solution. The main suggested reasons for this are that fuses are: lower in price, have a faster response time for high short-circuit currents,  require less maintenance and  that it is very simple to understand how they work.

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High Voltage: circuit breaker is the best!

May 23rd, 2010 | 20 Comments | Posted in Electrical distribution
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ringmaster outdoorEvery time I hear or read something about fuses, I’m convinced that15 years ago in the UK, we made the right choice by moving away from fuses to circuit-breakers.

If we take the first argument I read in a previous article, that a fuse-switch is a cost effective solution, this is in fact a myth. In the past it was true due to the physical size of the old circuit-breakers.  Now, compact RMUs with dedicated circuit breakers and self-powered relays have the same life time costs as fuse-switch solutions and have far more useful features.

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