Switching has almost always meant “hard" switching, which is simple but comes with all kinds of electrical and thermal stresses. Soft switching employs more sophisticated ...

While the electromechanical switch is one of the last components designed into a circuit, selecting the right switch is an essential part of designing anything that has to be powered on including ...

Circuits as WAN connections battled successfully against packets for years because they guaranteed bandwidth, no matter what. If you bought a T-1 circuit, the service provider nailed up 1.5Mbps from ...

Q. What type of circuit breaker does the Code allow to be used for switching duty of lighting circuits? A. Circuit breakers used to switch 120V or 277V fluorescent lighting circuits must be listed and ...

ABB has released the Switching Control Sentinel (SCS) device designed for high-voltage circuit breakers. Voltage and current transients generated during switching of high-voltage circuit breakers are ...