On Saturday 08 December 2012 20:19:14 andy pugh did opine:

> On 9 December 2012 01:06, Gene Heskett <[email protected]> wrote:
> > push button reset thermal gizmo's with a tolerance and repeatability
> > that are horrifyingly sloppy.
> 
> Thermal or thermal/magnetic?
> 
My guess is pure thermal, heavily overloaded response times are still in 
the hundreds of milliseconds.

> An MCB ought to be able to do the job, even if you dismantle it to
> make the useful parts fit (though they normally include things like a
> chimney and an arc-extinguisher)

Both should be a 100% requirement.  Having seen the fire rolling across the 
floor from a GE AK-225 interrupting a 400 amp/phase 230 delta circuit when 
I tested it without the arc quenchers mounted, was, shall we say, 
educational.  Those arc quencher cages actually work!  ;-)

Cheers, Gene
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BOFH excuse #11:

magnetic interference from money/credit cards
I was taught to respect my elders, but its getting 
harder and harder to find any...

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