Electrical and related buildings technology
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...
The other day I was talking to a colleague who is a building services consultant. Despite regularly specifying dry-type/cast resin transformers he was...
A fundamental concept behind the operation of alternating current systems is that voltage and current waveforms will be sinusoidal – a Sine Wave. This...
Most installations involve some form of lightning protection system which is connected to an earth electrode. The function of the earth electrode is to...
Often document control is dictated by project requirements, for example a particular organisation may have an existing numbering system. Existing company...
In 2011, with the introduction of it’s Panda search ranking algorithms, Google introduced tools for determining the original author of posts. The intention...
I have been thinking recently that there appears to be less professional integrity around than when I first started my career in electrical engineering...
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...
Fault calculations are one of the most common types of calculation carried out during the design and analysis of electrical systems. These calculations...
IEEE TV has a part series of videos on wind power and it's implication. For a really good overview to the technologies and issues around wind power, these...
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