Residential breakers
Residential breakers
Overview
Our integrated circuits and reference designs help you create and optimize a residential circuit breaker design to support small form factor while accurately detecting faults and quickly disconnecting the load. We help you design a variety of residential breakers, including an arc fault circuit interrupter (AFCI), ground fault circuit interrupter (GFCI) or residual current circuit breaker (RCCB) that detects leakage currents, a surge protection device (SPD) that detects surges in voltages or a miniature circuit breaker (MCB) that detects fault current or temperature.
Design requirements
Modern residential breakers often require:
- Sensitivity for detecting high-frequency arcs or low-level leakage currents.
- Minimizing components to convert alternating current (AC) line current or voltage to regulated direct current (DC).
- Integrating wired and wireless communications for better data analysis.
Block diagram
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Technical documentation
Type | Title | Date | ||
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Technical article | Improve circuit breaker leakage current response with a voltage supervisor | PDF | HTML | 25 Sep 2023 | |
White paper | Enabling and integrating wired & wireless technologies for grid interoperability | 22 Mar 2019 | ||
Technical article | Implementing Wi-Fi® connectivity for grid protection and control | PDF | HTML | 18 Jul 2023 |
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