To prevent a motor from burning up, you must provide a means of protecting it from overcurrent (overload, short circuit, or ground fault). If you can remember not to confuse motor protection with ...

Electric drives require effective protection against overloads and short circuits. Both phenomena cause motor disruption and create a risk of damage to the motor. This could lead to a potentially ...

In Part 1, we saw why we must separate overload protection from fault and short circuit protection for motor circuits. But correctly sizing these different devices can be confusing. And if you follow ...

PITTSBURGH … Diversified industrial manufacturer Eaton Corporation announced today that it is expanding its motor and load protection solutions with Motor Insight ...

The usual way of preventing a small motor from drawing too much current is to install overcurrent protection in the form of a circuit breaker or some other kind of limiter. But installations that ...

Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories, Inc. (SEL) has introduced new features in the SEL-701 motor protection relay. These features include Acselerator QuickSet SEL-5030 software support and a ...

The USB, HDMI, and eSATA ports in our smartphones, tablets, automotive infotainment devices, and other gadgets make them easy to connect to other devices. However, these high-speed interfaces are ...

Texas Instruments announced the expansion of its motor driver portfolio with the addition of 12-V motor driver family that reduces spin-up time to just seconds and makes tuning stepper and brushed DC ...