Following on from my post on railway electrification voltages, I thought an introduction to traction substations would be a good idea. Traction substations...

In electrical engineering, Network Theory is the study of how to solve circuit problems. By analyzing circuits, the engineer looks to determine the various...

Problems on achieving maximum voltage drop within an installation come up often. Depending where you live, local regulations will have different limits...

Everything physical in electrical engineering from insulations to conductors revolves around materials. Here we are listing common materials along with...

American inventor Thomas Alva Edison was born in Milan, Ohio on February 11, 1847. He was the youngest of seven children and received little formal schooling...

One of the requirements to ensuring that everything works is to have equipment selected, manufactured and verified [tested] to IEC standards. Not all equipment...

The other day I came across an article in Technology Review on the development of a smart transformer. A professor at North Carolina State University is...

The term 'N+1' relates to redundancy and simply means that if you required 'N' items of equipment for something to work, you would have one additional...

GE have put together a time-lapse video shown flight take-off and landings at some airports. An interesting view:

IEC 60947 is the circuit breaker standard and covers the marking of breakers in detail. Any manufacturer following this standard should comply with the...