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

Working in the vicinity of electrical equipment poses an hazard. In addition to electric shock hazard, fault currents passing through air causes Arc Flash...

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

"I can live with doubt and uncertainty and not knowing. I think it is much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers that might be wrong...

The inventor of the first visible light-emitting diode makes history again this year as it begins to show customers a 40-watt replacement GE Energy Smart...

In an earlier note on the site [Photovoltaic (PV) - Electrical Calculations], the theory of solar (PV) cell calculations was introduced.  In particular...

A single phase system is perhaps the most common type of system most people are familiar with. This is what people have in their homes and what appliances...

One of the fundamental requirements of an alternating current distribution systems it to have the ability to change the magnitude of voltages.  It is more...

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

The European Union is implementing a voluntary code of practice for participants with the aim of improving the overall efficiency of data centres. As part...