Faulting vs Tripping

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I’m no electrical engineer nor electrician and my job requires a lot of maintenance activities at a plant and I’ve searched and ask engineers but I can’t grasp what they really mean in simple terms.

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A fault is something that has gone wrong. A trip is something that shuts things down before a fault happens based on sensing that a fault is about to occur. The trip protects the system from damage that would be caused by the fault.

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