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What is the difference between a release, a contactor and a circuit breaker?

What is the difference between a release, a contactor and a circuit breaker?

Answer:

Contactor in the broad sense refers to the use of electric current in the coil to generate a magnetic field, the contact closed to achieve the control of the load of electrical appliances.
The contactor is divided into AC contactor (voltage AC) and DC contactor (voltage DC), which applies to power, power distribution and electricity.
Detector is a switch circuit breaker or thermal relay inside a body, popular say that some of the monitoring circuit to reach a certain degree of time to trigger the trigger, the purpose is to control the circuit break.

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