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 ...

In electronics and electrical engineering, a fuse is an electrical safety device that operates to provide overcurrent protection of an electrical circuit. Its essential component is a metal wire or ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Mr. Sheehan, why did Mersen develop the new 2,000 VDC fuses for PV systems? JT Sheehan: We received customer requests for ...