ettev

Can anyone help me determine a conversion/correlation between a fusible link and a fuse/circuit breaker? What I'd like to know is what size fuse or circuit breaker would trip at the same point as a 20ga. fusible link would?
Thanks for any help or direction.

mrvette

Furse, ckt brkr, fusible link are all temperature related/ melting metal devices.... with the ckt brkr obviously being a distortion of metal under heat, then reset sometimes automatically.......

I don't think there is a direct correlation between fusible link and the other two.....a plain fuse reacts the fastest, and the fusible link is the slowest of the bunch....

I suspect a 20 ga link is about equivalent to a 5-7 amp fuse....

GENE

mapman

The link below might help.

I think you want to keep a fusible link rather than a CB or regular fuse. The fusible links react slower. I don't think GM used fusible links just for the hell of it.



http://www.madelectrical.com/catalog/fusible-link.shtml

Boofers

This doesn't sound right to me.