minibreaker trip curve

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Anyone have any information on the trip curves of the Mechanical Pruducts/Bussman 'Minibreaker' that screws into an Edison base fuse holder? I know this product is still being made, but neither the OEM Mechanical Products or the distributor Cooper Bussman list it on their websites. I'm sure it's not exactly a product they're especially proud of.
 
If you know that it used to be on their website at some point in the past 10 years you might be able to find the page through the "Wayback Web Machine", which is located at www.archive.org.
 
mdshunk said:
Ah, yes. You 'da man, er.. so to speak. ;)
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The appropriate gender-neutral term is "You da bomb!"

I'll be happy to provide you with other terms. I've submitted a proposal that all journeymen and journeywomen be referred to as "Journeypeeps" in the future.

ObTopical -- Did that link work for you?
 
tallgirl said:
ObTopical -- Did that link work for you?
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Indeed, it did, but the Wayback Machine doesn't archive very "deep" into the sites, so I couldn't find what I needed. I'm going to call Mechanical Products next week to see what I can find out. They actually have a picture of the screw in mini breaker on their home page banner, and their history page shows it as one of their milestones around 1956. They just don't have any information on their site about them at all. I'd sorta like to get trip curve information, and also to find out if they're even "legal" to use, so to speak.
 
mdshunk said:
Indeed, it did, but the Wayback Machine doesn't archive very "deep" into the sites, so I couldn't find what I needed. I'm going to call Mechanical Products next week to see what I can find out. They actually have a picture of the screw in mini breaker on their home page banner, and their history page shows it as one of their milestones around 1956. They just don't have any information on their site about them at all. I'd sorta like to get trip curve information, and also to find out if they're even "legal" to use, so to speak.
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You might be able to find the page by looking at different dates. I forget the method they use to spider (jargon for "going through the entire web site") web sites, but I seem to recall it was based on pages which had been changed since the site was last archived.

On the other hand, a lot of "old" information never made it onto the web. The earliest documents were in Postscript format (what came before PDF) and if the document wasn't in a form that could be converted to Postscript, it wouldn't have been published. And if it wasn't in Postscript, it was definitely never in PDF.
 
tallgirl said:
The appropriate gender-neutral term is "You da bomb!"

I'll be happy to provide you with other terms. I've submitted a proposal that all journeymen and journeywomen be referred to as "Journeypeeps" in the future.
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How do you feel about being considered human?:smile:

I saw a sign outside a shop in Santa Fe that referred to womyn. I don't remember if it was intended to be used as singular, plural, or universal. Other nouns that immediately come to mind where singular and plural are the same are in the deer family. I have never heard moose, elk, or deer referred to as mooses, elks, or deers by anyone but tourists.

I have known a few women who preferred that the customary male-gender name for a position be used in referring to them. One example is the office of "selectman" in New Hampshire towns, similar to councilman in city government. I searced the NH statutes for 'selectman' and it returned a list of 'the first 500' of more than 500 results. When I tried 'selectwoman' and 'selectperson' it returned "Sorry, there is no legislation matching your query".

I think that our "Live Free or Die" motto will be changed before "selectman" is changed to some gender-neutral form in New Hampshire.
 
Marc,
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Anyone have any information on the trip curves of the Mechanical Pruducts/Bussman 'Minibreaker' that screws into an Edison base fuse holder
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I have been with the company for 22 years, so I know what you are talking about.
We stopped making them about 20 years ago and have no published timecurrent curves left. I even called St Louis on your behalf.
My suggestion is just to get the T series. They are a dual element time delay fuse, but becarefull since they go all the way up to 30 amps, so watch your wire size.
try this:
http://www.bussmann.com/library/bifs/1034.PDF
 
Holy CoW!
I just got off the phone with application Engineering.
We stock those little buggers in the 15 and 20 amp ranges.
MB-15BC 4 to a pack
MB-20BC
Let me know if you need samples.....
send me a PM
 
Bob NH said:
How do you feel about being considered human?:smile:
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I'd like to say that I find "human" offensive since it assumes that all humans are men. Additionally, "huperson" is equally offensive since it assumes that all "hupersons" are sons, thereby ignoring daughters.

Therefore, I propose that "human" be immediately replaced with the gender neutral term "huperchild".

Since that term is difficult to pronounce (and discuss with a straight face), I'd suggest instead that we just use "peeps".
 
Thanks David!

Reason I'm asking is because I just installed about 100 of these minibreakers as a retrofit (cleaned out every Lowe's in the Tri state area). I just wanted to investigate them a little bit to see if I did something good or bad.
 
MD:

I am out of state but, if you need a rough idea of the curve I could plot one for you, when I get back. I would need to purchase several new units(I own several but they are old, use them all the time for temporary). Let me know if Bussman cannot supply the curves.
 
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