Every circuit in your home has a rating, determined by the circuit’s overcurrent protection. When electricity flowing through a circuit surpasses its rating, the overcurrent protection kicks in.

Fuses provide perfectly competent overcurrent protection. However, in residential and other low-power applications, they are considered obsolete, though still Code-compliant. Besides being resettable, ...

What's So Great About Overcurrent Protection? Understanding the overcurrent trilogy will help you protect your circuits. Circuit overcurrent protection encompasses overload, short-circuit, and ...

The protection technique proposed here is included in a test circuit. The circuit has a MOSFET switching into a short circuit producing fast-rising overcurrent events.

The TRW250-130 overcurrent protection circuit is aimed at ADSL modem, access network equipment, and central office equipment architectures. The through-hole device offers a rated current of 180 mA.

Modern protection schemes protect sensitive charging electronics from high-voltage and overcurrent conditions, both at the circuit and battery level. This provides a safe and reliable charging ...

Guest columnist Faraz Hasan, marketing and business development manager at Tyco Electronics Circuit Protection Products says that LEDs can require overcurrent protection despite built-in safety ...

Solid-state overcurrent-protection ICs such as USB switches and card-slot power switches offer a simple and robust protection for pins at risk of overloads and short circuits. Such switches ...