Air Blast Circuit Breaker

Air Blast Circuit Breaker: Air Blast Circuit Breaker - It is not possible to produce a low resistance arc without a considerable gas pressure so that the only type available…

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Air Break Circuit Breaker

Air Break Circuit Breaker: The arc interruption process of Air Break Circuit Breaker is based on the natural deionization of gases by a cooling action. The arc is resilient and…

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Arc in Circuit Breaker

Arc in Circuit Breaker: Discharge in a.c. circuit breakers, generally in the form of an arc, occurs in two ways. When the contacts are being separated arcing is possible  even…

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Motor Protection

Motor Protection: Motor Protection - There is a wide range of motors in existence for various purposes. However, the fundamental problems affecting the choice of protection are independent of the…

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Prime Mover Protection

Prime Mover Protection: In the event of prime-mover failure the machine starts motoring meaning thereby that it draws electrical power from the system and drives the prime-mover. This condition imposes…

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Thermistor Operation

Thermistor Operation: The word thermistor is a combination of thermal and resistor. A thermistor is a resistor with definite thermal characteristics. Most thermistors have a negative temperature coefficient (NTC), but…

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Crystal Equivalent Circuit

Crystal Equivalent Circuit: Crystal Equivalent Circuit - The output frequency of oscillator circuits is normally not as stable as required for a great many applications. The component values all have…

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Transistor Operation

Transistor Operation: pnp and npn Transistor Operation - A junction transistor is simply a sandwich of one type of semiconductor material (p-type or n-type) between two layers of the opposite type.…

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