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Miscellaneous › Others › Why we don’t use breaker on Neutral wire in AC Circuits? › I saw many circuit breakers

August 18, 2014 at 10:20 am #12033
Palash Kumar Paul
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I saw many circuit breakers (DP, ELCB) where phase and neutral are break at the time of Circuit breaker trip.  But some standard do not permit breaking of neutral. If we break both neutral and phase (hot) at same time, what will happen? Any hazard may occur? If so, what is the hazard?

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