The first sign is silence. The fridge quits its tiny opera. The Wi-Fi blinks a farewell. Somewhere, a neighbor yells, “Is it just me?” Nope. The lights are out, but this is not the apocalypse; it’s ...

During a routine generator test at a hospital, the results revealed the need to reset the hospital’s molded-case circuit breakers (MCCBs) to the correct value per a coordination study. One of the ...

Nobody looks forward to a power outage. After all, we rely on electricity to power appliances. And when there is a blackout, the situation can move from a minor to a stressful one quite easily. That ...

If your outlet has red and black buttons, it's likely in the kitchen, bathroom, or garage, and those buttons serve an ...

Testing your 240V circuit breaker panels is also important to ensure all of the wiring going into the individual breakers has not become loose or broken. “It’s also good to look at it and just make ...

Unless you’ve recently blown a fuse and suddenly found yourself without electricity, it’s probably been a while since you’ve spent some time at your circuit breaker box. But you might want to take a ...

The hair dryer routinely trips the breaker and kills power to the second floor. The kitchen lights dim when you run the microwave. The air conditioner can only cool one room at a time on a sweltering ...

Phoenix Contact's Trio Power family integrates a circuit breaker, bringing supply and protection into a single unit that outputs up to 40 A. A new family of three-phase power supplies from Phoenix ...