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

Power systems today operate in an environment where reliability and safety must be maintained despite rising loads, expanding ...

Consumer electronic products have become increasingly complex, compact, and power-dense. With these changes comes a heightened need for robust overcurrent protection strategies to ensure the safety, ...

Abstract: Traditional instantaneous overcurrent protection schemes encounter significant challenges in power lines, particularly when line impedances are low, resulting in minimal differences in fault ...

Microcurrent facials have long been a celebrity favorite for snatched cheekbones and camera-ready glow. But with at-home tools flooding the market, the question remains: can these handheld devices ...

Abstract: Grid-forming (GFM) inverter-based resources (IBRs) can emulate the external characteristics of synchronous generators (SGs) through appropriate control loop design. However, in systems with ...

Safety and protection in power systems are essential to ensure the protection of both electronic components and users. Safety is extremely important in power electronics. Systems must be designed to ...

In this EC&M Tech Talk Randy Barnett discusses in five different sections the concepts and rules of overcurrent protection. Overcurrent protective devices include the fuses and circuit breakers ...

Inrush current represents one of the most common yet overlooked challenges in power electronics design. These sudden current surges can exceed normal operating levels by 10 to 100 times, lasting only ...