A battery consists of one or more cells, each of which use stored chemical energy to produce electrical energy, There are many types of cells and these...

The mobile phone was born in 1973. They were the size of a brick and weighed a couple of kg, making them difficult to fit into your pocket. At a few thousand...

If you want to check a circuit is dead (not live), you should always use the three point method. First check a known live circuit, then check the dead...

Most installations involve some form of lightning protection system which is connected to an earth electrode.  The function of the earth electrode is to...

Low voltage (LV) switchrooms are common across all industries and one of the more common spatial requirements which need to be designed into a project...

The other day I was reading 'Night of the New Magicians' by Mary Pope Osborn with my son.  The story is about a young boy and girl who travel back in time...

A fundamental concept behind the operation of alternating current systems is that voltage and current waveforms will be sinusoidal – a Sine Wave. This...

A frequent problem in fault calculations is the obtaining of equipment parameters.  While it is always preferable to use the actual parameters of the equipment...

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

Reading is a bit of a hobby of mine and I"ve done a few off-topic posts in the past on this. Rather than continue doing the occasional post I thought ...