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<blockquote data-quote="bbeljefe" data-source="post: 8150696" data-attributes="member: 655960"><p>And you only need fire insurance if your house catches fire. Certified or not, circuit breakers trip on thermal loads and thermal devices wear and fail... especially when they're in a hostile environment like the engine compartment of a vehicle. Moreover, every time a breaker is tripped, contact resistance rises and thus, voltage drops and higher current can be expected, which becomes wasted energy in the form of heat across the breaker's contacts... which increases the probability of future failures.</p><p></p><p>Also, a properly sized anl fuse won't blow unless it's supposed to blow, so if you've had problems with fuses blowing in the past, you've been under fusing. Either that or you were using the right fuse for the wire but not the right wire for the current draw your amps need.</p><p></p><p>But I understand that whole not wanting to be in the past thing. So running a breaker might be better, because I'm sure there will be some cool new amps to buy in the future when that breaker wipes out your system. ;-)</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="bbeljefe, post: 8150696, member: 655960"] And you only need fire insurance if your house catches fire. Certified or not, circuit breakers trip on thermal loads and thermal devices wear and fail... especially when they're in a hostile environment like the engine compartment of a vehicle. Moreover, every time a breaker is tripped, contact resistance rises and thus, voltage drops and higher current can be expected, which becomes wasted energy in the form of heat across the breaker's contacts... which increases the probability of future failures. Also, a properly sized anl fuse won't blow unless it's supposed to blow, so if you've had problems with fuses blowing in the past, you've been under fusing. Either that or you were using the right fuse for the wire but not the right wire for the current draw your amps need. But I understand that whole not wanting to be in the past thing. So running a breaker might be better, because I'm sure there will be some cool new amps to buy in the future when that breaker wipes out your system. ;-) [/QUOTE]
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