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

If you want to check a circuit is dead (not live), you should always use the three point method. First check a known live circuit, then check the dead...

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

A recurring theme on our forums is cable sizing. Now many installations are unique and require special consideration. However, a lot of the time things...

Dielectrics (insulating materials for example) when subjected to a varying electric field, will have some energy loss.   The varying electric field causes...

The IET site has a video of a visit showing of a high tech meeting room developed at Napier University in Edinburgh. It a good demonstration of innovative...

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...

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

Fault calculations are one of the most common types of calculation carried out during the design and analysis of electrical systems. These calculations...

Per unit fault calculations is a method whereby system impedances and quantities are normalised across different voltage levels to a common base.  By removing...