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 ...

Eaton said the single-pole Breaktor allows separation of battery poles and integration with components such as latching ...

Why a gas-discharge tube is an important component for overvoltage protection. The history of spark gaps—predecessors to GDTs—includes a role in famous movies. How a new, compact, surface-mount GDT ...

As worldwide markets for electric vehicles continue to gain market share, low-cost connections of vehicles to mains charging need to be safe and efficient. The electric-vehicle (EV) market is ...

With the 2020 revision of the NEC, Art. 242 replaced two individual Articles that appeared in earlier editions of the Code — Art. 280 [Surge Arrestors] and Art. 285 [Transient Voltage Surge ...

Circuit protection devices are safety components that are used in every electronic device and system, ranging from the smallest smartphones and wearables to high-reliability applications like ...

Barring something like an incorrect transformer tap connection, an overvoltage is a momentary event in which voltage “surges” beyond nominal. We often call that a transient. A breaker or fuse is ...