Within Europe the European Committee for Electrotechnical Standardization (CENELEC) has standardised the both the designation and colour of cables.   ...

When making adding a Note to our site we have a great online WYSIWYG editor and things are pretty simple.  However, if you prefer you can write, manage...

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...

Years ago I was told that you should always try to write the best report you can.  Many years later I still think on this as one of the better pieces of...

It starts with me reading one of the Horrible History books with my son (Groovy Greeks). Arrows were mentioned which lead to the discussion of the bodkin...

GE have put together a time-lapse video shown flight take-off and landings at some airports. An interesting view:

The image (reproduced from IEC 60909) shows a typical fault in an ac system.  From the illustration it can seen that there is an initial dc component ...

We have had the Wiki with us for a long time now, but at last I have decided to say bye bye – more details on why below.

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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...