Power systems today operate in an environment where reliability and safety must be maintained despite rising loads, expanding ...

In this EC&M Tech Talk Randy Barnett discusses in five different sections the concepts and rules of overcurrent protection. Overcurrent protective devices include the fuses and circuit breakers ...

The bq24314C is a highly integrated circuit designed to provide protection to Li-ion batteries from failures of the charging circuit. The IC continuously monitors the input voltage, the input current, ...

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

Article 215 covers the installation, conductor sizing, and overcurrent protection requirements for feeder conductors not over 1,000VAC or 1,500VDC (Fig. 1). Fig. 1 ...