Current limiting
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title:
Current limiting
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Current limiting is the practice of imposing a limit on the current that may be delivered to a load to protect the circuit generating or transmitting the current from harmful effects due to a short-circuit or overload. The term "current limiting" is also used to define a type of overcurrent protective device. According to the 2020 NEC/NFPA 70, a current-limiting overcurrent protective device is defined as, "A device that, when interrupting currents in its current-limiting range, reduces the curr
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Safety feature in electrical engineering
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Current_limiting
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2024-01-21T17:46:20Z
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