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2. Residual-current device - Wikipedia

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   A residual-current device (RCD), residual-current circuit breaker (RCCB) or ground fault circuit interrupter (GFCI) [a] is an electrical safety device that interrupts an electrical circuit when the current passing through a conductor is not equal and opposite in both directions, therefore indicating leakage current to ground or current flowing to another powered conductor.

3. Circuit breaker - Wikipedia

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   The circuit breaker is labeled with the rated current in amperes prefixed by a letter, which indicates the instantaneous tripping current that causes the circuit breaker to trip without intentional time delay expressed in multiples of the rated current:

4. Wikipedia : Wikipedia Signpost/2005-02-28/Power outage

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   After some scrambling to determine why network access had been lost, Jimbo Wales contacted Neutelligent and learned that the cause was the tripping of circuit breakers. In spite of the fact that some of the servers had a second power supply on a separate circuit, this circuit breaker tripped as well, leaving all of the servers entirely without ...

5. Protective relay - Wikipedia

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   In electrical engineering, a protective relay is a relay device designed to trip a circuit breaker when a fault is detected. [ 1 ] : 4 The first protective relays were electromagnetic devices, relying on coils operating on moving parts to provide detection of abnormal operating conditions such as over-current, overvoltage , reverse power flow ...

6. Selectivity (circuit breakers) - Wikipedia

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   The purpose of selectivity is to minimize the impact of a failure on the network. Faults in an installation are, for example, overload and short circuit. [1] [2] There are four ways in which selectivity is achieved: [3] Current selectivity: different breaking capacities; Time selectivity: time delay before tripping of a breaker

7. Power system protection - Wikipedia

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   Circuit breakers or RCDs to open/close the system based on relay and autorecloser commands; Batteries to provide power in case of power disconnection in the system; Communication channels to allow analysis of current and voltage at remote terminals of a line and to allow remote tripping of equipment.