OT: UPS for FreeBSD

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Fri, 28 Nov 2014 17:49:01 -0800
perryh at pluto.rain.com (Perry Hutchison) wrote:
> Chris Hill <chris at monochrome.org> wrote:
> > On Fri, 28 Nov 2014, Paul Pathiakis via freebsd-questions wrote:
> > > Get this, the main junction breaker, was a piece of bimetallic
> > > chunk of metal 1500 kVA circuit designed to melt upon overload.
> > > *shiver*)
> >
> > I believe that is called a "fuse."
> 
> "designed to melt upon overload" is the very definition of a fuse,
> but bimetallic (in the context of overload protection) sounds like
> a thermal circuit breaker.  I wonder if the combination may indicate
> that someone is con-fused :)

A "1500 kVA" bimetallic thermal circuit breaker?