Understanding the overcurrent trilogy will help you protect your circuits. Circuit overcurrent protection encompasses overload, short-circuit, and ground-fault protection. NEC Art. 100 defines ...

Circuits experience overcurrent due to overload, short circuits, or fault current. What are these, and how do they differ? An overload is a relatively small amount of excess current resulting from too ...

For modern distribution protection, Negative Phase Sequence (NPS) Protection is often relegated in favor of common elements such as Overcurrent (OC) or Earth Fault (EF), but NPS is an incredibly ...

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

Ground fault protection is a cornerstone in ensuring the safety and operational reliability of modern power systems. Ground faults, which occur when an unintended electrical path connects a live ...

S&C has upgraded Coordinaide — The S&C Protection and Coordination Assistant. It’s available now on the S&C website. The IntelliRupter PulseCloser application has been expanded to include a sensitive ...

With its integrated bootstrap functionality, PFC or brake, and ground fault protection this latest high-voltage IC is ideal for three-phase inverter applications with space limitations. As part of ...