Electrical and related buildings technology
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...
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...
Some colleagues had an issue earlier in the week on sizing conduits to be cast in concrete for some power cables . It became clear that none of us had...
Per unit fault calculations is a method whereby system impedances and quantities are normalised across different voltage levels to a common base. By removing...
GE have put together a time-lapse video shown flight take-off and landings at some airports. An interesting view:
Over the past year or so I've been involved in on going discussions related to referring fault levels from the secondary of a transformer to the primary...
Modelica is an open source (free) software language for modelling complex systems. Having never used it before, I thought I would download a development...
Depending where in the world you work, you are likely following one of two standards International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) National...
If you have no idea how electrical circuits work, or what people mean then they talk about volts and amps, hopefully I can shed a bit light. I’m intending...
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...
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