A type of supplementary protector which limits the amount of damaging short circuit current.
Feature that protects the electrical equipment from damage under overload conditions such as a short circuit. The maximum output current is automatically limited to a predetermined safe value. If the equipment is specified for auto restart, normal operation is automatically restored when overload condition is removed.
An overload protection circuit that limits the maximum output; current of a power supply in order to protect the load and/or the power supply.
A protection circuit that limits the maximum output current in order to protect the load being driven and the battery charger or power supply providing the power.
An electronic overload protection circuit which limits the maximum output current to a preset value. See also Output Current Limiting
A means to limit the maximum amount of current applied to the load.
Current limiting is the practice in electrical or electronic circuits of imposing an upper limit on the current that may be delivered to a load with the purpose of protecting the circuit generating or transmitting the current from harmful effects due to a short-circuit or similar problem in the load. This term is also used to describe the ability of an overcurrent protective device (fuse or circuit breaker) to reduce the peak current that flows in a circuit, by opening and clearing the fault in a sub cycle time frame.