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Re: PDU recommendations

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (=?utf-8?B?TcOlbnM=?= Nilsson)
Mon Jun 24 06:10:37 2013

Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2013 12:10:08 +0200
From: =?utf-8?B?TcOlbnM=?= Nilsson <mansaxel@besserwisser.org>
To: shawn wilson <ag4ve.us@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: PDU recommendations Date: Sun, Jun 23, 2013 at 09:32:00PM -040=
0 Quoting shawn wilson (ag4ve.us@gmail.com):
> So, that's not a very good endorsement :)
>=20
> Idk why you'd use a fuse in a PDU.

MCB units age.  Especially with vibration.  A 10A MCB becomes a 9A MCB afte=
r some miles.=20

Fuses don't.=20

MCB units are good at protecting people since they trip quickly and aggress=
ively.=20

Fuses tend to linger before blowing, and thus are comparatively bad at prot=
ecting
people (longer shock) but better at protecting infrastructure (surge
and switch-on-transient resistance).

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M=C3=A5ns Nilsson     primary/secondary/besserwisser/machina
MN-1334-RIPE                             +46 705 989668
There's a little picture of ED MCMAHON doing BAD THINGS to JOAN RIVERS
in a $200,000 MALIBU BEACH HOUSE!!

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