Short circuit detector

pcleats · Post by **pcleats** » 25 July 2006, 14:30 PM

Does anybody have a simple short circuit detector. My distribution box has 8 seperate power connectors, and if one of power connectors gets shorted out or something happens to the power wire I would like a way to disable that power connector without killing the power to the other items connected to the box.

Thanks

Patrick

pcleats · Post by **pcleats** » 25 July 2006, 15:51 PM

I found just the circuit I was looking for.

Maxim ics has a very cool chip that will allow you to monitor both the voltage and the current.

http://www.maxim-ic.com/appnotes.cfm/ap ... umber/2015

Patrick

GTBecker · Post by **GTBecker** » 25 July 2006, 18:44 PM

It sounds like a USB power switch might be ideal:
http://focus.ti.com/docs/prod/folders/p ... s2020.html

Tom

pcleats · Post by **pcleats** » 26 July 2006, 13:10 PM

GTBecker wrote:It sounds like a USB power switch might be ideal:
http://focus.ti.com/docs/prod/folders/p ... s2020.html

Tom

The only problem is I am using 12 Volts to control my devices not 5 Volts

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