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For more in-depth information about circuit protection applications, click on the titles below to download PDF reports authored by Ferraz Shawmut engineers and technical support staff.

Articles

	What's Behind All The Marks? A Collage of Product Certification Marks Brings the Global Economy to Your Local Electrical Market Reprinted by permission from TED magazine, July 2004 [62 k]
	Caught Unprotected?: A Lack of High-Speed Fusing Could Undermine Your Plant's Productivity Reprinted by permission from A-B Journal, June 2003 [85 k]
	Liquid Cooled Heatsinks Enable Smaller, Cooler Devices Reprinted by permission from Power Electronics Technology magazine, June 2003 [333 k]
	The Fuse Protection Review: Consolidating Inventory Reduces Costs and Upgrades Safety Reprinted from Plant Services, June 2003. [94 k]
	Thermally Protected MOVs Resist Overvoltage Failures Reprinted by permission from PCIM magazine [4.47 mb]

White Papers

	Arc Flash Basics: Testing Update [407 k]
	Effect of Insulating Barriers in Arc Flash Testing [1.37 mb]
	Effect of Electrode Orientation in Arc Flash Testing [295 k]
	Improved Method for Arc Flash Hazard Analysis [199 k]
	Effect of Harmonic Currents on Semiconductor Fuse Ratings [112 k]
	Ferraz Shawmut Thermally Protected MOV (TPMOV®) [371 k]
	Protection of TVSS Systems [212 k]
	Current-Limiting Fuses Improve Power Quality [94 k]

Tech Topics

	Standards & Codes, Note 1: Achieve Higher SCCRs for Industrial Control Panels [455 k]
	Arc Flash Note 1: Multiple Hazards of Arcing Faults [491 k]
	Arc Flash Note 2: Reducing Arc Energies with Current-Limiting Fuses [508 k]
	Arc Flash Note 3: Arc Flash Hazard Analysis [279 k]
	Arc Flash Note 4: Reduce Arc Flash Energies by Upgrading to A6D Class RK1 Fuses [610 k]
	Arc Flash Note 5: Issue 1: Reduce Arc Flash Energies by Reducing Fuse Ampere Rating [350 k]
	Component Protection Note 2: Enhancing Short Circuit Safety with Type [681 k]
	Component Protection Note 3: Addressing Overcurrent Issues for Transient Voltage Surge Suppressors [ 1.3 mb]