Understanding the advantages, limitations, and use cases of each technology helps engineers create reliable consumer products.

The use of electronic equipment in industrial, commercial and residential environments continues to grow exponentially. All require power to operate and all are significantly impacted by complex power ...

Since the earliest versions of indoor LED light bulbs were developed, their designers have faced a variety of technical challenges. These include AC-to-DC power conversion, thermal design/heat-sinking ...

Most people are comforted in knowing their homes are protected from electrical hazards by the circuit breakers located behind the door of a home's load center. These residential circuit breakers ...

Downtime has taken on enormous importance as companies struggle to compete in a global market and a global downturn. Managers are in hot pursuit of technologies that reduce business interruptions, no ...

Circuit breakers now sport advanced features that include remote control and operational status reporting. Engineers have long considered circuit protection a stable if somewhat unglamorous area.

Article 440 applies to electrically driven air-conditioning and refrigeration equipment. The rules in this Article add to, or amend, the rules in Art. 430 and other Articles in the NEC [440.3(A)]. A ...

Waytek has introduced PolySwitch circuit protection devices as a resettable over-current protection solution in vehicle, heavy truck and equipment wire harnesses. Waytek's new PolySwitch circuit ...

In the quest for higher speed and lower costs, today’s modern electronics use increasingly dense integrated circuit technologies, whose sensitivity to surges creates difficult challenges for designers ...

The Sentron ECPD (electronic circuit protection device) electronically switches off circuit faults if errors occur and, if necessary, trips the mechanical isolating contact downstream. Sentron ECPD ...

While 80% of surges originate internally from normal operations like motor starts and VFD inverter operation, external causes like lightning and utility switching also demand industrial-grade surge ...

The usual way of preventing a small motor from drawing too much current is to install overcurrent protection in the form of a circuit breaker or some other kind of limiter. But installations that ...