Available in multiple ampere ratings and configurations, Mersen’s Class J fuse switch portfolio supports a wide range of low-voltage power distribution and motor protection applications. The robust ...

This product is featured in EDN’s Hot 100 products of 2014. See all 100 here. Protecting the precious designs, that engineers create with their blood, sweat and tears, is a must and should be ...

Electric circuit protection is essential to protect wiring, equipment, and personnel. Proper selection and application of protection is mandated by law. Fuses, circuit breakers and overloads are often ...

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 ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Anyone who's lived in a home or apartment has probably heard the terms "fuse box" or "circuit breaker" before. If you ever experienced a power ...

The fuse described in this design idea does not drop the connection, it simply limits the output current. A behavior that is similar to a polyfuse, however the circuit shown in Figure 1 is more ...

When I was a kid back in the 1970’s, many houses still had fuse boxes. Unlike modern circuit breakers, fuses were used only once, and then they burned out and needed to be replaced. So people kept ...