Low voltage (LV) switchrooms are common across all industries and one of the more common spatial requirements which need to be designed into a project...

A battery consists of one or more cells, each of which use stored chemical energy to produce electrical energy, There are many types of cells and these...

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...

From the earliest times, humans have found ways to create light. Pre-historic peoples used natural materials (moss, grass, etc.) soaked in animal fat and...

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

I have been thinking recently that there appears to be less professional integrity around than when I first started my career in electrical engineering...

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

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 ...

When sizing cables nearly, everyone uses some form of software. This ranges from homespun spreadsheets to complex network analyses software. Each has its...

This morning I was explaining how differential protection works to a junior engineer. To give him something to read I opened up the NPAG (Network Protection...