Tech Topics/Application Notes - Siemens 

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...

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...

Everything physical in electrical engineering from insulations to conductors revolves around materials. Here we are listing common materials along with...

Request to look at induction motor starting time have come up a few times on the site. Hopefully in this post, I give you guys some idea on how to calculate...

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...

These lifts were first built in 1884 by J. E. Hall and called a paternoster ("Our Father", the first two words of the Lord's Prayer in Latin) due to its...

This article gives an introduction to IEEE 485 method for the selection and calculation of battery capacity.

From the earliest times, humans have found ways to create light. Pre-historic peoples used natural materials (moss, grass, etc.) soaked in animal fat and...

A single phase system is perhaps the most common type of system most people are familiar with. This is what people have in their homes and what appliances...

Exposure to time varying magnetic fields, from power frequencies to the gigahertz range can have harmful consequences.  A lot of research has been conducted...