Disclosed herein is a circuit for preventing a malfunction of an arc fault
detection device for determining whether an arc fault occurs through a
low-current route or a high-current route, classified according to the
magnitude of load current, using a source voltage applied to a conductor,
which sets an operational prohibition range so as to prevent the
malfunction of determining a pseudo-arc signal attributable to various
combinations of loads to be an actual arc signal and interrupting a
circuit, thus being capable of more precisely controlling the detection
of the arc signal.