OptiFuse Employee Directory

Appliances, Electrical, and Electronics ManufacturingCalifornia, United States11-50 Employees

OptiFuse is a manufacturer and marketer of over-current and over-voltage protective devices. The company is headquartered in El Cajon, CA and maintains a satellite office in Taipei, Taiwan.

OptiFuse was founded in 2000 by Jim Kalb and other investors as an alternative manufacturer to the more established brands of Bussmann and Littelfuse. 

Prior to 2000, OptiFuse had designed and manufactured approximately 150 different products for Bussmann, Littelfuse and Ferraz-Shawmut under the name of Basic Power Engineering and Manufacturing. 

In 2000, Bussmann and Littelfuse announced that they would begin utilizing a limited distribution strategy centered solely around global distribution partners and would eliminate their corps of 2,500 electronic and automotive distributors.

OptiFuse saw the opportunity to service these disenfranchised distributors by creating a catalog of fuse and fuse holder products.  In addition to their own products, OptiFuse has created strategic alliances with other manufacturers of specialized over-current and over-voltage products.

Today OptiFuse manufactures and distributes a wide array of products that include:

Automotive and electronic fuses 
Resettable PTC type fuses 
Industrial fuses 
Panel-mounted, Inline, and PCB mounted fuse holders 
Fuse clips and blocks 
Thermal circuit breakers for automotive and line voltage applications 
Thermal temperature fuses 
Varistors and gas-tube arrestors 

Together, these products represent over 7,000 individual SKUs and are sold exclusively through OptiFuse distributors. All of OptiFuse products are RoHS compliant and/or lead-free. Many of the parts are listed or recognized by UL and/or other international safety organizations.

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