Fuses are an essential part of many system designs, and we’ve come to depend on them since the earliest days of electricity. The basic concept of using a fusible link—which self-heats due to current ...

The circuit protection market is filled with such a wide variety of fuses today that the previously accepted method of specifying fuses is just not enough. Instead, the proper application of fuses in ...

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

We’re all familiar with thermally activated fuses, where the conducting element self-heats due to current flow, melts at a defined current value, and breaks the flow path. They are simple in concept ...

It’s easy to trivialize the need for a fuse and how to select one. We have all been annoyed or exasperated by a blown fuse. Sometimes we wish there was no such component needed for our circuits. With ...

Maintenance personnel should implement a maintenance procedure for interval inspections of fuse protected equipment. The maintenance procedure should stress the environmental or operating conditions ...

The new Trans-Guard EXT Current-Limiting Backup Fuse from Thomas & Betts is designed to enhance protection on overhead distribution systems by significantly reducing the amount of energy let-through ...

Among passive electronic components, the fuse and diode are well known, well understood, widely used, and essential to many circuits and systems. Still, each has inherent shortcomings that make them ...

The new Trans-Guard™ EXT Current-Limiting Backup Fuse is designed to enhance protection on overhead distribution systems by significantly reducing the amount of energy let-through to the source of the ...