Fundamental electrical engineering concepts and theory
Following on from my post on railway electrification voltages, I thought an introduction to traction substations would be a good idea. Traction substations...
IEC 62305 'Protection against lightning' requires a risk assessment be carried out to determine the characteristics of any lightning protection system...
This post is quick introduction and overview to different railway electrification voltages used in answer to a question sent in via email. While there...
Fault calculations are one of the most common types of calculation carried out during the design and analysis of electrical systems. These calculations...
Collection of links to various places with useful motor information. I’ll try and return to the page every now and again to update it with any motor notes...
Sometimes it’s useful to be able to quickly lookup a piece of technical information. This note is a collection of information related to motors, and in...
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...
The following tables provide quick order of magnitude fault levels for a a range of typical low voltage situations.
Alternating current (a.c.) is the backbone of modern electrical power distribution. In this article I’ll be pulling some of the more important concepts...
Within Europe the European Committee for Electrotechnical Standardization (CENELEC) has standardised the both the designation and colour of cables. ...
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