Everything physical in electrical engineering from insulations to conductors revolves around materials. Here we are listing common materials along with...

The term 'N+1' relates to redundancy and simply means that if you required 'N' items of equipment for something to work, you would have one additional...

Request to look at induction motor starting time have come up a few times on the site. Hopefully in this post, I give you guys some idea on how to calculate...

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

The International System of Units (abbreviated SI) is the world's most widely used system of units.  The system consists of a set of units and prefixes...

I'm a fan of using manufacturers catalogues. There are two main reasons for this. Firstly, if your involved in the purchase of equipment, you will likely...

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Fault calculations are one of the most common types of calculation carried out during the design and analysis of electrical systems. These calculations...

The calculation of current in a three phase system has been brought up on our site feedback and is a discussion I seem to get involved in every now and...