Control theory looks at how systems work and are controlled from a mathematical view.  This note gives a brief introduction to some of the concepts – more...

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Over recent years the Lithium Ion battery has become popular in applications requiring high power densities with small weight and footprint.  Today Lithium...

Bored at work and would rather be playing trump card game with you son. The next best thing (or not) maybe the online cable trump card game from AEI Cables...

This post is quick introduction and overview to different railway electrification voltages used in answer to a question sent in via email. While there...

In a previous article I looked at the dc resistance of conductors and in this article we turn our attention to ac resistance. If you have not read the...

Current transformers (CTs) are used to convert high level currents to a smaller more reasonable level for use as inputs to protection relays and metering...

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

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...

A load flow study is the analysis of an electrical network carried out by an electrical engineer. The purpose is to understand how power flows around...