The widely used United Sates standard ANSI/IEEE C37.2 'Electrical Power System Device Function Numbers, Acronyms, and Contact Designations' deals with...

Modelica is an open source (free) software language for modelling complex systems. Having never used it before, I thought I would download a development...

I have been thinking recently that there appears to be less professional integrity around than when I first started my career in electrical engineering...

Gauss's Electrical law defines the relation between charge ("Positive" & "Negative") and electric field.  The law was initially formulated by Carl Friedrich...

IEC 62305 'Protection against lightning' requires a risk assessment be carried out to determine the characteristics of any lightning protection system...

Often us engineers get so bogged down in equations, using software, producing drawings and writing specifications that this becomes the sole focus.   ...

This is the first of two posts on the resistance of conductors. In the next post I will look at the ac resistance, including skin effect and we deal with...

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This article gives an introduction to IEEE 485 method for the selection and calculation of battery capacity.

This is the second post in a series of two on periodic electrical inspections. In the first post, I discussed how often inspections should be carried out...