what is the purpose of fuse?

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what is the purpose of fuse?..

Answer / jayakumar.k

during short circuit /earth fault condition fuse blows off
and gives protection to the equipment.

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what is the purpose of fuse?..

Answer / ashokareem

It is working as a Swicth.If the voltageecced the rating
capacity automatically the fuse connector is got burn(OFF).

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what is the purpose of fuse?..

Answer / rodney

a protective device which breaks whenever current flowing
through it exceeds the rated current.thus breaking the
circuit,only under fault conditions.

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what is the purpose of fuse?..

Answer / s.venkateswara rao

The purpose of fuses
protection of short circuit, (to avoid the major damejas)

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what is the purpose of fuse?..

Answer / majeed

It is an electrical device which has certain melting point
vlaue accordind to the rated current of the wire. If the
current in the wire exceeds the rated current the fuse
melts thus stopping the faulty current and avoids short
circuit in the device and performing healthy operation in
the device.

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what is the purpose of fuse?..

Answer / kapil

it is made up of low melting point wire. when current
exceeds the rated value,the wire gets melted due to which
fuse disconnect the ckt.thus we get satisfactory operation
of devices

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what is the purpose of fuse?..

Answer / kumarsekar

it is switch when current and voltage increased in that specification

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