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Re: slow blow fuse

Subject: Re: slow blow fuse
From: Graham Singleton <grasingleton@avnet.co.uk>
Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2002 23:28:55
>Most contact breakers are effectively slow blow fuses due to the way that
>they work.
>
>Anything other than a contact breaker would be a liability as the main fuse
>in an aircraft electrical system (ie if there were a surge you would loose
>all your electrics and changing fuses in flight is not an option - asuming
>you have a spare !)

Bob Nuckolls recommends fusible links, so that is what I will use in 
future. I've yet to read anything of his that I can't respect and he's 
brighter than me anyway.

Graham



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