Fundamental electrical engineering concepts and theory
Tapping your forearm or hand with a finger could soon be the way you interact with gadgets. A new technology created by Microsoft and Carnegie Mellon ...
HTML supports a variety of entity symbols which can be entered using either numbers or an entity name. The number or name is preceded by the ‘&’ sign...
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...
If your are ever called out to troubleshoot something on your electrical system, one of the first things consider is the supply voltage. You want to ensure...
Most installations involve some form of lightning protection system which is connected to an earth electrode. The function of the earth electrode is to...
One of the comments on my Motor Starting Series was asking for something on duty cycles. Here it is. As a purchaser of a motor, you have responsibility...
A load flow study is the analysis of an electrical network carried out by an electrical engineer. The purpose is to understand how power flows around...
Often document control is dictated by project requirements, for example a particular organisation may have an existing numbering system. Existing company...
Modelica is an open source (free) software language for modelling complex systems. Having never used it before, I thought I would download a development...
Various arguments exist around SF6 Gas Insulated (GIS) and Air Insulated (AIS) medium voltage switchgear. Recently we had to change a GIS design to AI...
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