Protecting an electronic circuit from damage due to excessive current or heat is the primary function of many circuit protection technologies. In the past, this protection took the form of a fuse or ...

You can use several circuit protection schemes in power supplies to help guard against fault conditions and the resultant overtemperature damage, including thermal fuses, current fuses, and circuit ...

Electronic ballasts used in fluorescent lighting systems can experience high failure rates, due to the fact that the ballast manufacturer may not have considered all failure mechanisms or provided ...

Although a decentralized approach to harness protection that utilizes PPTC devices has been available since the 1990s, its adoption has been slow. In fact, as electrical and electronic content has ...

Since Apple's iPad 2 reportedly will not incorporate ALD/SLD polymeric positive temperature coefficient (PPTC) resistors, Taiwan's protective component makers will not be able to break into Apple's ...

Polymeric positive-temperature-coefficient (PPTC) devices have long been used on low-voltage devices and systems to protect circuits from overcurrent (short circuits) and overtemperatures. The ...