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    electronics and electrical engineering, a fuse is an electrical safety device that operates to provide overcurrent protection of an electrical circuit. Its...
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    Automotive fuses are a class of fuses used to protect the wiring and electrical equipment for vehicles. They are generally rated for circuits no higher...
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  • Distribution board (redirect from Fuse box)
    breaker panel, electric panel, fuse box or DB box) is a component of an electricity supply system that divides an electrical power feed into subsidiary circuits...
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  • fuse or circuit breaker). This device is called a crowbar as it is likened to dropping an actual crowbar across a set of bus bars (exposed electrical...
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    Thermal cutoff (redirect from Thermal fuse)
    A thermal cutoff is an electrical safety device (either a thermal fuse or thermal switch) that interrupts electric current when heated to a specific temperature...
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  • automotive fuses Fusebox (band), an American band Fuse Box (album), by AC/DC, 1995 Fuse (electrical)#Fuse boxes This disambiguation page lists articles associated...
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  • A fusible link is a mechanical or electrical safety device. They are used in fire sprinkler heads to activate the sprinkler in the presence of heat. They...
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    distribution grid, usually resulting in a short circuit or a blown fuse. Electrical breakdown can also occur across the insulators that suspend overhead...
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  • Look up fuse in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Fuse or FUSE may refer to: Fuse (electrical), a device used in electrical systems to protect against excessive...
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    components which modify the electrical output from the electrical input (except where a switch or fuse is provided as a means of disconnecting the output...
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  • breakers and fuses, which only open the circuit when the current exceeds a fixed value for a fixed time, a GFCI device will interrupt electrical service when...
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    Proximity fuze (redirect from VT fuse)
    A Proximity Fuse (also VT fuse or "variable time fuze") is a fuse that detonates an explosive device automatically when it approaches within a certain...
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  • Electrical wiring in the United Kingdom refers to the practices and standards utilised in constructing electrical installations within domestic, commercial...
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    core Toroidal inductors and transformers Decoupling (electronics) Fuse (electrical) Zero-ohm resistor Vanhoenacker, Mark (November 1, 2012). "What Is...
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  • voltage, the voltage at which a battery is considered fully discharged. Fuse (electrical) (or cutoff), a type of overcurrent protection device. Meander cutoff...
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  • asteroid, asteroids with siliceous mineralogical composition S type fuse, electrical fuses with an Edison base S-type granite, a category of granite S-type...
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  • into various other electrical products. In 1908, the company was renamed Detroit Fuse and Manufacturing. Horton, an 1895 electrical engineering graduate...
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    Electrical wiring is an electrical installation of cabling and associated devices such as switches, distribution boards, sockets, and light fittings in...
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    Circuit breaker (category Electrical wiring)
    interrupt current flow to protect equipment and to prevent fire. Unlike a fuse, which operates once and then must be replaced, a circuit breaker can be...
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    Knob-and-tube wiring (category Electrical wiring)
    installation of separate fuses in both the hot wire and the neutral (return) wire of an electrical circuit. The failure of a neutral fuse would cut off power...
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    A resettable fuse or polymeric positive temperature coefficient device (PPTC) is a passive electronic component used to protect against overcurrent faults...
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    Residual-current device (category Electrical wiring)
    interrupter (GFCI) is an electrical safety device, more specifically a form of Earth-leakage circuit breaker, that interrupts an electrical circuit when the current...
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    In electrical distribution, a fuse cutout or cut-out fuse (often referred to as a cutout) is a combination of a fuse and a switch, used in primary overhead...
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    British English and American English (fuse/fuze respectively) and they are unrelated to a fuse (electrical). A fuse was earlier used to ignite the propellant...
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  • IEC 60269 (category Electrical standards)
    In electrical engineering, IEC 60269 is a set of technical standards for low-voltage power fuses. The standard is in four volumes, which describe general...
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  • Fusing, as a joining process, may refer to: Fusing (manufacturing), type of manufacturing process for joining or terminating electrical magnet wire Stained...
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    An electrical conduit is a tube used to protect and route electrical wiring in a building or structure. Electrical conduit may be made of metal, plastic...
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    controlled using magnetic and electrical fields. Fusion devices use this capability to retain the fuel at millions of degrees. The fusor is part of a broader class...
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    products, available in a singular form and are not to be confused with electrical elements, which are conceptual abstractions representing idealized electronic...
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    In physics and electrical engineering, a conductor is an object or type of material that allows the flow of charge (electric current) in one or more directions...
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