Provided is an apparatus and method for protecting against unsafe electric current conditions. A protections circuit may be used in a device, such as an electric grill, that has one or more electric loads, such as heating elements. The protection circuit may protect against various failure scenarios, including, without limitation, instances of ground fault, over current, driver failure, and failure of a microprocessor. In response to a failure, the protection circuit may trip a latch relay or disable a triac driver to stop current from flowing.

A method and system for suppressing EMP-induced voltage surges due to detonation of a nuclear weapon at high altitude generating an EMP (HEMP) comprising E1, E2, and E3 component pulses. Surge protection assemblies are positioned intermediate a signal stream and a plurality of electronic device ports associated with a plurality of communication channels of networked devices. Single-channel multimode surge suppressing systems are combined to form multi-port multimode protection systems that connect directly to multiport networked devices supporting communication channels with mixed signals data and direct current power in Gigabit Ethernet networks supporting PoE. The surge suppressing systems mitigate differential and common mode induced interference and protect from overvoltage surges associated with E1, E2, and E3 components of the HEMP and mitigate the over-voltages to predetermined allowable levels within the predetermined time. The surge suppressing systems is interoperable with multimode PoE and support endpoint and midspan PoE devices of Gigabit networks.

Provided is an apparatus and method for protecting against unsafe electric current conditions. A protections circuit may be used in a device, such as an electric grill, that has one or more electric loads, such as heating elements. The protection circuit may protect against various failure scenarios, including, without limitation, instances of ground fault, over current, driver failure, and failure of a microprocessor. In response to a failure, the protection circuit may trip a latch relay or disable a triac driver to stop current from flowing.

A method and system for suppressing EMP-induced voltage surges due to detonation of a nuclear weapon at high altitude generating an EMP (HEMP) comprising E1, E2, and E3 component pulses. Surge protection assemblies are positioned intermediate a signal stream and a plurality of electronic device ports associated with a plurality of communication channels of networked devices. Single-channel multimode surge suppressing systems are combined to form multi-port multimode protection systems that connect directly to multiport networked devices supporting communication channels with mixed signals data and direct current power in Gigabit Ethernet networks supporting PoE. The surge suppressing systems mitigate differential and common mode induced interference and protect from overvoltage surges associated with E1, E2, and E3 components of the HEMP and mitigate the over-voltages to predetermined allowable levels within the predetermined time. The surge suppressing systems is interoperable with multimode PoE and support endpoint and midspan PoE devices of Gigabit networks.

A method and a device for supplying energy to a low-voltage load using an electronic power supply device. The method involves: a) setting the power supply device to be able to provide an output current to the low-voltage load up to a specified peak current value upon demand; b) monitoring the output current (I.sub.L) provided to the low-voltage load by the electronic power supply device to detect an increase of I.sub.L over a threshold (I.sub.N) which is lower than the peak current value, c) if an increase of I.sub.L to an increased output current value higher than I.sub.N is detected, detecting the increased I.sub.L value and ascertaining an output current pulse duration (t.sub.Pulse) based on the increased current value; d) providing I.sub.L at the level of the increased current value for the duration of the ascertained t.sub.Pulse; and e) providing the I.sub.L at the level of I.sub.N after t.sub.Pulse has expired.

A temporary power delivery system includes a power source, a booth stringer, and a portable GFCI device. The GFCI device is receives current from the power source by a first terminal and delivers current to the booth stringer by a second terminal. An electronic processor of the GFCI device compares a combined magnitude of current flowing through first and second phase conductors of the GFCI device to a magnitude of current flowing through a neutral conductor of the GFCI. The electronic processor also compares a first voltage between the first phase conductor and neutral conductor to a second voltage between the second phase conductor and neutral conductor. A circuit breaker of the GFCI device is opened if a difference between the combined magnitude of phase conductor current and neutral conductor current exceeds a first threshold or a difference between the first voltage and second voltage exceeds a second threshold.

A reverse fault current interruptor (RFCI) may be employed in one or more locations in an electrical power system. In one example, an RFCI may be installed in a combiner box of a solar power system. The RFCI may include a reverse current detector and a circuit protector such as a circuit breaker, operable in combination to clear a line-line fault in the combiner box. The RFCI enables a reduction of incident energy levels through detection of a reversal in a fault current characteristic of some DC power systems, where a traditional overcurrent protection device (OCPD) (e.g., fuse, breaker) may not trip in the same period of time.

A power pedestal is described. The power pedestal includes a plurality of receptacles that are configured to connect to external devices. The plurality of receptacles includes a first receptacle and a second receptacle of the plurality of receptacles. The first receptacle and the second receptacle are electrically interlocked with one another. The power pedestal includes a first circuit breaker connected to the first receptacle and a second circuit breaker connected to the second receptacle, and a shunt trip circuit that is configured to trip the first circuit breaker to disable power to the first receptacle of the power pedestal, responsive to the second circuit breaker associated with the second receptacle of the power pedestal being in an active state. Related devices and methods are also described.

A control circuit for an electric leakage circuit breaker, capable of preventing an error in determining an electric leakage generation due to an offset voltage of an input amplifier, including, a zero phase current transformer configured to detect a zero phase current on a circuit as a leakage detection signal, a filter circuit section configured to remove a high frequency noise included in the leakage detection signal, an input amplifier configured to a voltage formed by a current of the leakage detection signal and an impedance of the filter circuit section, and includes a pair of transistors, a base current generator commonly connected to the bases of the pair of transistors and configured to supply the same amount of base current to the pair of transistors, and a trip determination circuit section configured to determine whether to output a trip control signal.

Embodiments described herein provide short circuit detection capabilities for current drivers. One embodiment includes a controller and a current driver. The current driver includes a power switch circuit that couples a supply rail to a high side of a load in response to receiving a drive signal. The current driver further includes a continuity circuit that couples the supply rail to the high side and indicates to the controller whether a first current flow to the high side exceeds a first threshold. The current driver further includes a current sense circuit that couples a low side of the load to ground and indicates to the controller whether a second current flow from the low side exceeds a second threshold. The controller identifies, based on the first current flow, the second current flow, and the drive signal, a plurality of short circuit conditions that may exist at the current driver.