Fire resistant and fire retardant cable sheaths are design to resist combustion and limit the propagation of flames. Low smokes cables have a sheath designed...

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...

If you have a great idea or invent something the last thing you want is someone to steal the idea. One of the things you can do is protect the intellectual...

Collection of links to various places with useful motor information. I’ll try and return to the page every now and again to update it with any motor notes...

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Modelica is an open source (free) software language for modelling complex systems. Having never used it before, I thought I would download a development...

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...

Coils of wire on the rotor carry a d.c. current which generates a magnetic field. A stator magnetic field is created using either permanent magnets or...

Depending where in the world you work, you are likely following one of two standards International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) National...

Three phase systems are derived from three separate windings, either connected in delta or star (wye). Each winding can be treated separately, leading...