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A circuit overload is what investigators say caused a deadly fire Wednesday in York.

Don’t confuse overload protection with short-circuit and ground-fault protection.

Enhancing motor-drive apps with added safety, the ACPL-785J isolation amplifiers include both short-circuit and overload detection and allow direct measurement of motor phase currents in power ...

Transistor VT2 provides short-circuit protection to the load, with red LED D4 indicting an overload. (D2 blows out simultaneously with an overload.) Short-circuit current does not exceed 38 mA.