Written by Mark Lloyd, Product Marketing Manager, Power Supplies and Surge Protection
For my latest blog I want to talk about our latest Electronic Circuit Breaker, yet I am slightly stepping out of my comfort zone because this product features IO-Link functionality, which is something that is usually associated sensors and actuators and not with circuit breakers. However there is an increasing trend towards the integration of circuit protection into industrial networks and in response to this we have now released the CBMC electronic circuit breaker with an IO-Link interface.
There is no doubt that the weather in the UK is hugely varied and, at times, spectacular. As a result, the weather is a huge part of our culture and always features in our daily conversations – in fact, if stuck for small talk, you will always find common ground in a discussion about the weather! While we dream of the elusive “BBQ Summer”, the British summer is, more often than not, wet. And with the rain comes the thunderstorms.
Surge voltages are short, pulse like, voltage peaks with steep rising edges and are also known as transients.