Preventing shorts and power failures

H again.

Ok, I am glad you found what you needed.

But just for the record, here is my idea.

You will have to read my earlier post to get an idea of how I think it should work.

If you use bigger transistors (higher power) then you can use more current. Ofcourse the big trade off is the power used by R1.

I don't know if it IS needed, and may not actually be needed.