Modern power electronics are growing in both power capacity and density, making circuit protection more important than ever. There's increasing interest in solid−state circuit breakers and power ...

SEPTA has completed federally required inspections on all 223 Silverliner IV Regional Rail cars, meeting an extended deadline set by the Federal Railroad Administration after multiple fires were ...

A German research team has developed a semiconductor-based protection concept tailored to renewable energy systems that forces a permanent short circuit in less than 1 millisecond in the event of a ...

The new AOZ17517QI series developed by Alpha and Omega Semiconductor combines a hot-swap controller and power MOSFET in a single package. The new AOZ17517QI series developed by Alpha and Omega ...

Safety and protection in power systems are essential to ensure the protection of both electronic components and users. Safety is extremely important in power electronics. Systems must be designed to ...

Variable frequency drives (VFDs) offer the best system efficiency in heating and cooling systems, especially if they have an accurate and very wide range of speed control. To obtain truly variable ...

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 ...

Manufacturers of circuit protection devices continue to enhance the performance of their safety components to protect electronic devices and equipment, ranging from smartphones and wearables to data ...

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