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It’s easy to trivialize the need for a fuse and how to select one. We have all been annoyed or exasperated by a blown fuse. Sometimes we wish there was no such component needed for our circuits. With ...

The lights blink, the kettle dies mid-boil, and the house exhales into silence. You’re left squinting at labels and rummaging a drawer where bent nails, old batteries and a crumpled strip of kitchen ...

The equipment in this month’s troubleshooting situation has been around a while. Installed in 1999, the unit is a Nordyne brand, Model #S3BA-60K, and the customer requesting service explained to the ...

With the advancement in automotive infotainment speeding up, so is the need of the of an adequate power protection over an increasingly broad range of voltages, currents, and temperatures.

Fuses and circuit breakers are ”safety valves” built into electrical circuits to protect the wiring against overheating because of an overload or a short circuit. If excessive current flowed through ...