Electrical and related buildings technology
Following on from my post on railway electrification voltages, I thought an introduction to traction substations would be a good idea. Traction substations...
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...
Delum, who had watched all in silence, his face empty of expression, now spoke in turn. ' "Lead us, Warleader, into glory."' Reading is something I do...
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...
For the past few years I have reading eBooks on my HTC touch phone. On and off I have debated buying an eReader and recently purchased a Sony PRS-300 ...
I was reminded of Occam's Razor while reading a book. It's quite a simple principal of logic which has stood the test of time and is accepted as central...
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...
Depending where in the world you work, you are likely following one of two standards International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) National...
Fault calculations are one of the most common types of calculation carried out during the design and analysis of electrical systems. These calculations...
This is the first of two posts on the resistance of conductors. In the next post I will look at the ac resistance, including skin effect and we deal with...
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