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Have a Good Trip!

Posted May 03, 2008 7:13 AM

Protection of electrical circuits from shorts and over-current situations is crucial, but not always easy. Engineers constantly wrestle with the need to protect the circuit but also avoid nuisance circuit-breaker tripping from short-term surges, start-up currents, or vibration.

Here's one article that addresses how to properly match a breaker type to a given application, and how to minimize nuisance-tripping. A key point from the article: over-sizing is not the answer! What are your experiences with this circuit protection problem, and how did you solve it?

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Re: Have a Good Trip!

06/02/2008 9:39 PM

Gosh.. It sounds like we speaking for a --GFI-- with some kind of current monitoring modification with some kind of time delay system to avoid the nuisance-tripping troubles, I believe.

Probably with a well design ( gates-resistors-induction-capacitors-etc. ) "monitoring recognition station" or so that recognize such tricky's surges or brownish blinks that occur once in a while. Specially whenever an a 'Full Moon or Eclipse', who know's why? ( Ie. 'Fire Alarms' ). So far that's my experience so far with such monitoring stations working at few differents locations, no joke. Some guys told me that many times 'Bugs or Mouses' may be a cause of a lot of headaches as well, I don't know! In that case then we'll have to come out with some kind of 'Pest Resistance Invention' for the whole electronics components then. So here we go, A ('Industrial Electronic Pest Protection Services') and for the "Full Moon and Eclipse" unstables days condition an --('Steady State Magnetics Waves')--monitoring station or balancing controller able to recognize such atmospherics variables waves out there, heyy who knows? Everything is possible. I'll let that to the Pro's at this point better so enough with the story for the moment ti'll next time then, All Set.

Ps. --"Don't bring it to the bank yet"-- as I'm just brainstorming a little here to share something cool with the Masters here at CR-4 Techno Mall Corner...

We Getting There,

MC

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