Electrical Construction & Maintenance

Short Circuit Fault Calculations

A power system functions normally until after the occurrence of a fault in the system. The good news is fault events can be minimized or avoided through diligent electrical design, accurate record ...
Electrical Construction & Maintenance

Short Circuit Current Duties of Circuit Breakers and Fuses — Part 2

This is the second part of a two-part series on the methodologies used to find the short circuit current duties of circuit breakers and fuses. The first part, Short Circuit Current Duties of Circuit ...
EDN

Simple Short-Circuit Detection

This circuit is suitable in every situation where over-current protection is required. Here we give an example from the model train world. Every seasoned model train enthusiast knows that there is ...
pv magazine International

Temperature coefficient of short circuit current may not be proper metric for perovskite-silicon tandem solar cells

Researchers at the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) in Saudi Arabia have investigated whether the temperature coefficient of the short circuit current in perovskite-silicon ...
The Boston Globe

Short circuit at fault in dragging death of Red Line passenger last year, NTSB finds

Federal investigators on Tuesday said a short circuit was to blame for the failure of a safety system designed to prevent a Red Line train from accelerating and dragging a passenger to his death last ...