Electrical equipment - design, use and implementation
This post is quick introduction and overview to different railway electrification voltages used in answer to a question sent in via email. While there...
Motor starting and its associated problems are well-known to many people who have worked on large industrial processes. However, these things are, of course...
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...
While not as popular as it once was, frame leakage protection does still have some use in some circumstances. In essence frame leakage is an earth fault...
Cable insulation is used to provide electrical separation between conductors of a cable. During the historical development of cables, numerous types...
Earthing of electrical systems is essential for the correct functioning and the protecting of life and equipment in the event of faults. The earth electrode...
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...
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Capacitors have numerous applications in electrical and electronic applications. This note examines the use of capacitors to store electrical energy....
Photovoltaic (PV) cells (sometimes called solar cells) convert solar energy into electrical energy. Every year more and more PV systems are installed...
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