Electrical and related buildings technology
In 2011, with the introduction of it’s Panda search ranking algorithms, Google introduced tools for determining the original author of posts. The intention...
Years ago I was told that you should always try to write the best report you can. Many years later I still think on this as one of the better pieces of...
The following tables provide quick order of magnitude fault levels for a a range of typical low voltage situations.
Lamps are the essential part of any luminaire. These are the light generating components. Since the advent of electrical lighting in the middle of the...
This post is quick introduction and overview to different railway electrification voltages used in answer to a question sent in via email. While there...
This article gives an introduction to IEEE 485 method for the selection and calculation of battery capacity.
The image (reproduced from IEC 60909) shows a typical fault in an ac system. From the illustration it can seen that there is an initial dc component ...
Straight forward list of some common motor faults. If I have missed any other common faults, please take a bit of time to add them in as a comment below...
How often installations are inspected is up to the owner of the installation, provided such durations do not exceed any regulatory maximums in force. ...
I've been considering a blog on the 110 or 230 Volt issue for a while. While browsing the Internet I came across a great summary by Borat over at engineering...
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