All types of fuse work in exactly the same way. A fuse is an overcurrent protection device which protects a circuit against overload currents or short-circuit currents.
Overloads are caused when too high a load is connected, causing the supply conductor to carry more current than it is designed to carry. If this is allowed to continue, it may cause the conductor to overheat and represent a fire hazard.
Short-circuits occur when the line conductor accidentally comes into direct contact with either the neutral conductor or the earth (ground), causing a very high overcurrent to flow.
A fuse contains a metal strip, called an fuse element, which is designed to melt and disconnect the circuit in the event of an overcurrent. The higher the overcurrent, the faster the fuse will act to disconnect the circuit.
Fuses are graded in such a way that the fuse closest to the fault should operate first. For example, the fuse protecting a residential lighting circuit should operate faster than the fuse protecting the consumer unit.
An electric socket / plug pair are connectors. In their most basic forms (no GFI, indicators, etc.) they are entirely passive (they use no electricity themselves). They form a good electrical connection that is easily breakable by the user.
there's no fuse in a plug that I know of......you might be thinking of GFCI
AnswerAll UK plugs are fused. The fuse size is chosen based on the equipment that the plug supplies, up to a maximum of 13 A. This is because British 'power circuits' are ring-mains, not'radial circuits' as they use in North America, so any equipment plugged into the ring main must be individually fused at their plug. The fuse is accessible by removing the plug, and rotating it so the pins face you. The fuse is located behind a small, rectangular, plate that must be removed to access the fuse. On older plugs, the plug must be dismantled in order to access and change the fuse -a quick and easy job, as it is held together by a single screw.
Fuses in plugs, are used to protect the cable and device that they power.
If a major short circuit occurs in the cable or equipment, the excess current would cause the cable to catch fire.
The fuse in the plug would blow instead, thus preventing a fire.
Devices that only draw small amounts of current, can normally be operated quite safely with small, light, thin wire. This is fine until a fault occurs which shorts out the wire and the current drawn is enough to set the thin wire alight.
The house wiring is thicker and can stand larger currents up to the protection amperage of their own breaker, or fuse.
The small wire would set fire before the main fuse could blow. So by protecting the thinner wire with a small fuse in the plug, only the plug fuse will blow. This also helps indicate where the fault is.
A mains circuit fuse could have any number of devices on it.
limits the amps running thru it and helps save the wire line by not over loading wire line.
never seen fused plug, but got to be for overload protection
Yes it has in the plug that you put into the mains.
In the UK, you cannot put a 5 amp fuse in a 3 amp plug. The general rule of thumb is that you should use like for like.
Under a sliding cover on the plug body. Or: press the spades together to withdraw the plug from the body, sometimes fuses are hidden there. Or: one of the lamps is actually a fuse and is not a lamp.
on drivers side under the dash behind fuse block
Body,pins,bolt,coatingAnswerIt depends on the electric plug. British plugs, for example, comprise two rectangular-section metal pins which connect to the line and neutral conductors; a longer third rectangular-section pin which (a) opens and the socket's safety shutters and (b) connects to the earth conductor; and a fuse which protects the circuit being supplied by the plug. These metal pins and fuse are mounted in a hard plastic casing.
A fuse doesn't 'power' an electrical plug. A fuse protects the load supplied by that plug.
A fuse is fitted to a plug as a safety feature.
The auxiliary plug fuse can be found in the fuse box. The location of the fuse can be found on the inside cover of the fuse box.
No, fuse box fuses are of the screw in type. Plug in fuses are of a cartridge style that plug into the fuse holder which supports the fuse on either end of the cartridge.
The fuse is a safety feature.
no theirs no fuse
There is no fuse in the unit itself. The fuse in the charger in in the plug.
where is the glow plug fuse on a1995 masda bongo
A 4-amp fuse.
in the fuse box =]
Yes the glow plug fuse is the R2 relay in the fuse box, there is a fusible link as well that is the thick red one coming out the front of the fuse box
a fuse is a part of a plug. When a current quickly goes from 0-5 amps the fuse will blow