A fuse holder is a housing enclosure, mounted in the equipment and is designed to hold the fuse. A fuse that is simple to remove or easy to install indicates shorter downtime and safer replacement leading to cost-cutting. Fuse Holders are used for Power Supplies, Stabilizers, UPS, Solar Lanterns, Water Purifiers, Power Controllers, Bedside Monitor, Defibrillators, E-bikes. Fuse holders can hold both North American and international sized fuses. Elcom offers a wide range of fuse holders and variants to handle circuit protection, as per the industry requirement, with the flexibility to incorporate fuse holders into a circuit in various ways. A suitable pairing of fuse and fuse holder is ensured at design stage itself. The major design considerations include:

• Appropriate fuse size
• Load ratings
• The large inrush current to the equipment at start-up
• The duration of overload current to be sustained by the equipment
• The strength of overload current to physically destroy the fuse
• Thermal considerations
  • – Power dissipation of the fuse link
  • – Ratings of the fuse holder
  • – Ambient temperatures inside and outside equipment
  • – Electrical load changes
  • – Long operation times
  • – Ventilation, cooling, and heat dissipation
  • – Wire lengths and sizes