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In the 1950s, fuses in new residential or industrial construction for branch circuit protection were superseded by low voltage circuit breakers. Fuses are widely used for protection of electric motor circuits; for small overloads, the motor protection circuit will open the controlling contactor automatically, and the fuse will only operate for ...
Robert L. Boylestad (born 1939) was professor emeritus of electrical and computer technology at Queensborough Community College, part of the City University of New York, [1] [2] and was an assistant dean in the Thayer School of Engineering of Dartmouth College.
Symbolic circuit analysis is a formal technique of circuit analysis to calculate the behaviour or characteristic of an electric/electronic circuit with the independent variables (time or frequency), the dependent variables (voltages and currents), and (some or all of) the circuit elements represented by symbols. [1] [2] When analysing electric ...
series and parallel circuits Electrical circuits where current passes through multiple elements either one after the other, or side by side, like the rungs of a ladder, or both. shaded-pole motor An alternating current single-phase motor that produces a rotating magnetic field by a turn of wire around part of a field pole. shaft voltage
In an electric power system, a fault or fault current is any abnormal electric current. For example, a short circuit is a fault in which a live wire touches a neutral or ground wire. An open-circuit fault occurs if a circuit is interrupted by a failure of a current-carrying wire (phase or neutral) or a blown fuse or circuit breaker.
Nodal analysis uses the concept of a node voltage and considers the node voltages to be the unknown variables. [2]: 2-8 - 2-9 For all nodes, except a chosen reference node, the node voltage is defined as the voltage drop from the node to the reference node. Therefore, there are N-1 node voltages for a circuit with N nodes. [2]: 2-10
BS 1362 specifies sand-filled ceramic-bodied cylindrical fuses, with dimensions of 1 in (25 mm) in length, with two metallic end caps of 1 ⁄ 4 in (6.4 mm) diameter and roughly 1 ⁄ 5 in (5.1 mm) long. The standard specifies breaking time versus current characteristics only for 3 A or 13 A fuses.
Shannon's thesis became the foundation of practical digital circuit design when it became widely known among the electrical engineering community during and after World War II. At the time, the methods employed to design logic circuits (for example, contemporary Konrad Zuse 's Z1 ) were ad hoc in nature and lacked the theoretical discipline ...