Circuit protection has become a crucial design consideration to protect sensitive applications against overcurrent conditions. In most applications, overcurrent and overtemperature conditions are an ...

This is the first of a two-part series on the processes used to find the short circuit current duties of circuit breakers and fuses. In Part 1, we’ll use a simplified power system to illustrate the ...

Why are people scared of fuses? Many people think that fuses are unsafe, but this couldn't be further from the truth. A properly installed fuse is just as safe as a circuit breaker, but there are many ...

Bharat Shenoy, the director of Technical Marketing for the Electronics Business Unit at Littelfuse, noted, “The iDesign tool is much more powerful than any simple parametric search of a parts database ...

Selecting an appropriate fuse for an application is a potentially complex task for most circuit designers. It can become a rather time-consuming challenge to analyse the various manufacturers' ...

Two series of compact, high surge withstand fuses from Littelfuse, Inc. are both capable of withstanding up to 20 lightning-induced high current surges without performance degradation. The 328 and 688 ...

An electrical fuse box and a circuit breaker panel interrupt faults differently, shaping safety exposure, maintenance risk, upgrade limits, and long-term reliability. The wrong choice can quietly turn ...

Electrical overcurrents can not only damage systems, but also cause costly downtime. Fuses are said to be a great way to protect a battery energy storage system (BESS) simply and cost-effectively. In ...

Maintenance personnel should implement a maintenance procedure for interval inspections of fuse protected equipment. The maintenance procedure should stress the environmental or operating conditions ...

LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Technavio has announced the top five leading vendors in their recent global circuit breaker, fuse, and relay market report from 2017 to 2021. This research report also lists ...