QO Breakers and Panels [RE-wrenches]

[Drake Chamberlin - Electrical Energy]

<x-flowed>Hi Jay,

You're points are well made.  Breakers are much more convenient than 
fuses.  And, why are manufacturers often allowed to do the exact same 
things we are forbidden to do?  These issues need to be investigated.

One thought I had on fuses was to develop a user testable fuse box.   It 
would feature a built in test light on a flexible wire connected to 
ground.  The test lead could be put on the load end of each fuse to see if 
it was still hot.  We could leave a couple of boxes of fuses for the 
customer.

Best regards,

Drake

At 07:44 AM 03/09/2001 -0800, you wrote:
>Hi Drake,
>
>The one issue I have with fuses is that they at somepoint will fail and 
>that means
>a house call.  The reason we all use breakers and want to use them is for 
>ease for
>the customer.  (Don't see to many grid homes these days with screw in 
>fuses no?)
>
>I am familiar with the AIR situation, and I also know ( inregards to your QO
>breaker failure) that standard AC breakers fail also, so I'm not sure that 
>from one
>"problem" we can the whole idea of breakers.
>
>If there are better breakers, that do a better job then great lets use 
>them.  The
>AirPax/heinman work better but are just more expensive and difficult to use.
>Doesn't mean we shouldn't use them though.
>
>So here is my question:
>I know that there are differences between what a assembled product can do 
>and what
>we can make in the field, however is the issue really safety or what?
>I mean Trace uses Heineman direct to battery, Pulse used QOU on 48v 
>systems? So are
>these unsafe? Or if they are safe then what?
>
>I leave this in the hands of probably Bill and Drake??
>
>thanks,
>
>jay
>peltz power
>
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