Fundamental electrical engineering concepts and theory
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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...
GE's latest thinking on product manufacturing is he Shingijutsu philosophy or Lean production system. They have started applying this at the Louisville...
Fire resistant and fire retardant cable sheaths are design to resist combustion and limit the propagation of flames. Low smokes cables have a sheath designed...
Dielectrics (insulating materials for example) when subjected to a varying electric field, will have some energy loss. The varying electric field causes...
Many questions sent in to the site are in connection with motor starting and in particular star-delta. For all but the simplest application, there is...
This post is quick introduction and overview to different railway electrification voltages used in answer to a question sent in via email. While there...
Using laser optical pulses the random number generator utilizes the time between arrival of random photos to generate the numbers, ensuring true accuracy...
Power cables can basically be classified into earthed and unearthed cables, where earthed and unearthed refer to the application for which the cable is...
Electromechanical relays have been the traditional backbone of electrical protection systems. While over recent years these have been replaced by microprocessor...
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