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Default When bulb blows, earth leakage circuit breaker is tripped

On Wed, 13 Dec 2006 12:47:21 GMT someone who may be Guy King
wrote this:-

I suspect the
fuse still doesn't react as fast as the MCB.


Do you? Why?

A generalisation is that a fuse reacts much faster than an MCB
during a high current fault, but an MCB reacts faster than a fuse
during a low current fault (an overload).


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