A brush fire in Mountain Home destroyed 15 homes and injured law enforcement personnel. Investigators say arcing power lines were the cause of the fire.

Researchers in the US have built a new smart tool that has the ability ...

Ensuring power system safety involves effective arc fault detection and localization. Existing devices struggle to differentiate between normal and abnormal conditions, especially in confined spaces, ...

Arcing ground faults are common on 480Y/277V, 3-phase, 4-wire electrical systems. Arcing ground faults can be caused by human error when working around electrical ...

When two distinctly separate fires occurred at the same time inside a house in southwestern Ohio, the homeowner was left searching for answers in the aftermath of destruction. Although thankfully no ...

BOULDER COUNTY, Colo. (KDVR) — More than a year after the Marshall Fire, officials still have not released a cause. A hearing is taking place this month for the lawsuit surrounding the origins of the ...

Arcing is a ubiquitous phenomenon and a crucial issue in high-voltage applied systems, especially low-temperature plasma (LTP) engineering. Although arcing in LTPs has attracted interest due to the ...

FRIENDSHIP HEIGHTS, Md. (WJLA) — Another arcing insulator issue caused problems for commuters at the Friendship Heights Metro station. Metro experienced problems throughout Monday morning on the Red ...

Electrical arcing incidents — which can lead to track fires — have more than doubled on Metro since last summer — a spike that undermines the agency’s contention that safety and reliability are ...

Imagine a cockpit without the phalanxes of button-type circuit breakers. The breakers have been distributed to where they are needed throughout the aircraft. In fact, the breakers are of a new arc ...

In this interview, AZoM talks to Rohit Ramnath about the certifications for epoxy adhesives and electrical arcing. What are some of the tests that UL performs with respect to epoxy encapsulants and ...