Circuit breaker v Fuse

In my strongest opinion circuit breakers are rubbish. Use to have few of them installed in car and finished ditching all of them in favor of fuses. Electronic one probably better, but mechanical one definitely rubbish.

Cheers
Serg

My understanding of the two is that a circuit breaker stops an overload and resets afterwards good as in the case of your brakes.

Or not good in the case of your radio if the fault was still there and it happened again

A fuse blows and therefore you would have no brakes but would stop the fault recurring in the radio.

Someone will doubtless correct me on this.

Alan

The fuse gives best protection - something goes wrong and the circuit switches off till you change the fuse and hopefully fix the problem.

In the case of the brake controller, a total lack of brakes on the van could be a worry, so they recommend a self resetting breaker instead of a fuse. I'm with Serge - I doubt the value of a device that resets without the problem being fixed. However, that's what is specified and I guess it will stop the car wiring or battery from cooking if there is a short.

They are not expensive and you need to comply with manufacturers' instructions to protect your insurance in event of a problem, so just do it.

But use fuses for everything else because they force you to fix the problem before putting a new fuse in.

Max

Auto reset on electric brakes !!!

Please guys....

Down hill with no brakes could be a problem with a fuse that does not mend or auto reset.

Radios, lights and sensitive gear a fast blow fuse is best.

circuit breakers are typically bi metal strips , and depending on types of dissimilar metals , will expand (short) at set rates , and similarly contract at the softest metals rate to complete the circuit. it does not take 3-5 min to reset , circuit breakers give more safety to the wiring circuit than a fuse that will disconnect permanantley the circuit