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Uncommon card · Science
Earth-leakage circuit breaker, an Uncommon card
An earth-leakage circuit breaker is a safety device used in electrical installations to prevent shock.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 55
- DEF
- 24
- Power
- 79
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 19,000
Power 79 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 20 % of WikiCards cards.
Earth-leakage circuit breaker quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Earth-leakage circuit breaker card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
It consists of either a current sensing mechanism, or a ______ sensing mechanism.
Answer
voltage. It consists of either a current sensing mechanism, or a voltage sensing mechanism. From the Earth-leakage circuit breaker article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Nikolai Aleksandrovich Kozyrev. Nikolai Aleksandrovich Kozyrev 58 · Earth-leakage circuit breaker 55 · Cirrostratus cloud 52 · ALAS 49 ATK in WikiCards.
In a duel, each round asks a question like these about the opposing card, with 15 seconds to answer.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- It consists of either a current sensing mechanism, or a voltage sensing mechanism.
- Such a protection mechanism may be found in the form of distribution board modules, standalone devices, and special sockets.
- Voltage-operated ELCBs can still be found in the wild, though these largely fell out of favour after the invention of the current-sensing based RCD, technology.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Earth-leakage circuit breaker article was read about 19,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 55 and blocks with 24: each hit it takes is cut by 10 %.
How to get Earth-leakage circuit breaker
Open packs. Each pack holds five cards drawn from real Wikipedia articles, the rarest last, and the fifth card is always Rare or better. The odds are shown in the game. A free pack arrives every hour and two can wait, and the Coins you win in duels buy more packs.
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Cards close in power
The cards just above and just below Earth-leakage circuit breaker in the power ranking, all domains together.
- Nikolai Aleksandrovich KozyrevUncommon · Science · ATK 58 DEF 21
- Philipp TreuUncommon · Society · ATK 51 DEF 28
- ALASUncommon · Science · ATK 49 DEF 30
- Fedor TokarevUncommon · Arts · ATK 45 DEF 34
- Kikunae IkedaUncommon · Science · ATK 50 DEF 29
- Louis I of AnjouUncommon · History · ATK 55 DEF 24
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Earth-leakage circuit breaker (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Minhlinh36, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons.
