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Difference between Earth Leakage circuit breaker and Miniature circuit breaker

ELCB MCB
Why ELCB is used to protect the circuit from Protect from over current, overheating.
require the electrical leakage. When a person
gets an electric shock, then this circuit
breaker cuts off the power at the time
of 0.1 secs for protecting the personal
safety.
How it It notices small stray voltages on the It functions by Interrupting the stable current
works metal fields of electrical gear. And flow through the circuit once an error is
interrupt the circuit if an unsafe voltage detected. In simple conditions this circuit breaker
is detected. This circuit is a special kind is switched off when the current flows through it
of latching relay that has structures and passes the maximum acceptable limit of
incoming mains power connected current.
through its switching contacts so that
this circuit breaker disconnects the
power supply in an unsafe condition.

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