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Many questions sent in to the site are in connection with motor starting and in particular star-delta.  For all but the simplest application, there is...

Famed English chemist and physicist Michael Faraday was born on September 22, 1791, in Newington Butts, a suburb of Surrey just south of the London Bridge...

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Following on from my post on railway electrification voltages, I thought an introduction to traction substations would be a good idea. Traction substations...

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