Problems on achieving maximum voltage drop within an installation come up often. Depending where you live, local regulations will have different limits...

Nikola Tesla was born exactly at midnight on July 10, 1856 in the tiny village of Smiljan, Lika in Croatia. In his late teens, Tesla left the village to...

Power cables can basically be classified into earthed and unearthed cables, where earthed and unearthed refer to the application for which the cable is...

It wasn't so long ago I was telling someone that I don't use rules of thumb as most things are easily calculated anyhow.   As it turns out I last week...

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...

The other day I was talking to a colleague who is a building services consultant.  Despite regularly specifying dry-type/cast resin transformers he was...

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 ...

When selecting a cable, the performance of the cable under fault conditions is an important consideration. It is important that calculations be carried...

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

This is the second post in a series of two on periodic electrical inspections. In the first post, I discussed how often inspections should be carried out...