Along with smart technology used throughout your home appliances, upgrading your breaker box with smart circuit breakers is ...

Electricity is an essential part of our daily lives, powering everything from homes and businesses to industrial plants.

Short circuit current ratings should not be overlooked during panel design. Negative impacts can occur to production, equipment and, worst case, plant personnel.

Note: This article is based on the 2011 NEC. Overcurrent exists when current exceeds the rating of equipment or the ampacity of a conductor. This can be due to an overload, short circuit, or ground ...

This exceeds the 120V line-to-ground voltage rating of the 120/240V slash breaker. Be careful when installing slash-rated breakers on a solidly grounded high-leg delta system. Do not install them on ...

We asked an expert to explain all the problems that can cause tripped circuits, how to check your circuit breaker, and when to call a professional.

Dynamic Ratings’ new Breaker Performance Monitor (BPM) is a comprehensive circuit breaker monitoring solution for utilities. With high-speed waveform capture, the BPM combines offline and online ...

ORNL researchers are designing and increasing the capacity of a new type of semiconductor-based circuit breaker, which can ...

North Carolina-based Atom Power is the first company to receive UL certification for a solid-state circuit breaker, upsetting a century-old technological paradigm.