Advantages and disadvantages of miniature fuse

We often see things like glass tube fuses and chip fuses in cars. Glass tube fuse has been used for a long time as a protective element of electronic equipment. However, due to its shortcomings such as large size, easy breakage and inability to realize automatic installation, the demand for micro-fuses in the industry is increasing. The main purpose of traditional fuse is to protect the input part of power supply. Nowadays, some changes have taken place, and many new uses have been derived from fuses, such as protecting printed circuit boards and integrated circuits in equipment, and protecting input and output circuits. This also makes the use of miniature fuses increase year by year. Miniature fuse has the characteristics of small volume, high sensitivity and rapid protection. Commonly used in switching power supply, charger, small household appliances control panel.