When the lights cut out, the last place you want to be is on your hands and knees in the dark, feeling around for a flashlight while your breaker box looms somewhere nearby. A small, well planned ...

While standard receptacles typically use three wires -- hot, neutral and ground -- you'll occasionally find 2-prong outlets in older homes. Since this type of outlet lacks a ground connection, the ...

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Abstract: Solid-state circuit breakers (SSCBs) are critical components in the protection of medium-voltage DC distribution networks to facilitate arc-free, fast and reliable isolation of DC faults.

Abstract: With the development of renewable energy, flexible DC power transmission has made great progress, and DC circuit breaker has become an international research hotspot. This paper summarizes ...