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Originally Posted by fourthgear
Well if you tripped a Circuit Breaker ( fuse ) , you would know there is an issue & should investigate . Reset-able Fuse is nothing more then a Breaker like is in your house. If you blow a Fuse , you replace it , well with a reset-able Fuse , you don't have to have extra Fuses laying around & hope you have the correct amperage one . Trouble shooting an electrical issue is no different.
Wire it the way you want , its your upgrade , if it doesn't work out , it can be changed & my Power seats are powered by Ignition .
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Thanks for taking a stab at my question, but what you explained is a manual breaker...that is not what I'm referring to.
There is a difference between a fuse that you can manually reset such as a "breaker", then there are fuses that have a low temp metal which melts when the current exceeds its rating...and then there are thermal fuses, that once the current exceeds the rated current, the bi-metal heats up and mechanically breaks the circuit...once the circuit is broken, there is no more current, and once there is no more current, the bi-metal cools and reconnects, and the cycle continues.
Many of the fuses used in power seats is a bi-metal fuse...that resets itself. The question is...why do they use this type of fuse? As I mentioned, I would not want a fuse to reset itself if an over current condition were encountered.
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