Circuit protection devices are safety components used in a variety of applications, ranging from smartphones and laptops to medical and wireless communications equipment. These components include ...

This quick reference guide describes TE Circuit Protection’s products for automotive applications. These circuit protection devices help provide protection for overcurrent, overvoltage, and PCB trace ...

A variety of circuit protection devices can be used to help protect LCD screens from damage caused by excessive current or voltage transients. Overcurrent protection may take the form of a fuse or a ...

Understanding the advantages, limitations, and use cases of each technology helps engineers create reliable consumer products.

Waytek has introduced PolySwitch circuit protection devices as a resettable over-current protection solution in vehicle, heavy truck and equipment wire harnesses. Waytek's new PolySwitch circuit ...

Circuit breakers now sport advanced features that include remote control and operational status reporting. Engineers have long considered circuit protection a stable if somewhat unglamorous area.

From our perspective as a high-tech components manufacturer, we see the electronics industry being impacted in 2012 by two events that occurred in 2011. First, the natural disaster in Thailand caused ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Sentron ECPD (electronic circuit protection device) electronically switches off circuit faults if errors occur and, if necessary, trips the mechanical isolating contact downstream. Sentron ECPD ...