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From the Rolls-Royce experimental archive: a quarter of a million communications from Rolls-Royce, 1906 to 1960's. Documents from the Sir Henry Royce Memorial Foundation (SHRMF).
Description of circuit protection using relays instead of fuses, which trip when more than 30 amps is drawn.

Identifier  ExFiles\Box 125\2\  scan0057
Date  16th September 1929 guessed
  
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instead of fuses. This consists of two elements each protecting part of the circuit. The relays trip when more than 30 amps. is drawn off, and then emit a buzzing sound, while they limit the current passing to 10 amps.

Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/S.S.Tresilian.
  
  


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