The good thing about being a field applications engineer is that you get to work on many different circuits, often all at the same time. While this is interesting, it also presents problems. Jumping ...

At one time, the National Electrical Code (NEC) contained two Articles you won’t find as of the 2020 revision: Art. 280 (surge arrestors) and Art. 285 (transient voltage surge suppressors or TVSS).

A major power outage in April was caused by grid overvoltage, triggering a chain reaction. The Spanish grid lacked sufficient voltage control capacity, contributing to the blackout. Minister Aagesen ...

In test-and-measurement applications, you must provide overvoltage protection for the output terminals of amplifiers, power supplies, and similar components. The conventional way to accomplish this ...

To ensure reliability and safety for devices that run on ac and dc power lines, circuit protection is a definite design requirement. Unfortunately, there’s no universal protection solution. Varying ...

Many system applications require that capacitors be connected together, in series and/or parallel combinations, to form a "bank" with a specific voltage and capacitance rating. The most critical ...

Australian scientists have identified seven methods to prevent PV losses when overvoltage-induced inverter disconnections occur. The methods include battery storage, reactive power inverters, export ...

High demands on the robustness of electronic systems, especially in industrial environments, continually present developers with great challenges. Overvoltage protection is one key design ...

Surge protective devices (SPDs) have become an integral part of residential, commercial, and industrial power quality applications. The best SPDs provide enough safety so that, in the unlikely event ...

IN their communication under the above heading, Messrs. Le Brocq and Cocks 1 redirect attention to a point that has been too often overlooked: namely, that the effectiveness of a metal as the cathode ...