Circuit protection devices may seem mundane to mostengineers, but Greg Evans, P.E., CEO of Welcomm marketing for TE CircuitProtection, gave an eye-opening overview of two new ESD and thermal ...

Circuit protection devices are safety components used in a variety of applications, ranging from smartphones and laptops to medical and wireless communications equipment. These components include ...

Residual current circuit breakers (RCCB) play a narrow but important role in electrical protection. They are frequently specified, often misunderstood, and regularly credited with capabilities they ...

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 ...

The TISP4xxxLM series of telecom overvoltage protectors features modified TO-92 packaging. The devices are suited for cost-sensitive, through-hole applications. The high-performance chip is available ...

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 ...

From our perspective as a high-tech components manufacturer, we see the electronics industry being impacted in 2012 by two events that occurred in 2011. First, the natural disaster in Thailand caused ...

A circuit breaker that trips repeatedly is often assumed to be defective, but that assumption is frequently wrong. Breakers respond to conditions downstream, and replacing one without understanding ...

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.

CHICAGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Littelfuse, Inc. (NASDAQ:LFUS) today announced it successfully completed its acquisition of the circuit protection business of TE Connectivity Ltd. (NYSE: TEL) for $350 ...

A. Except as permitted by Sec. 240.21(A) through (H), overcurrent devices must be placed at the point where the branch-circuit or feeder conductors receive their power. Taps and transformer secondary ...

Each motor branch circuit must be protected against short circuit and ground faults by an overcurrent device sized no greater than the percentages listed in Table 430.52. A branch-circuit ...