Fire resistant and fire retardant cable sheaths are design to resist combustion and limit the propagation of flames. Low smokes cables have a sheath designed...

Working in the vicinity of electrical equipment poses an hazard. In addition to electric shock hazard, fault currents passing through air causes Arc Flash...

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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...

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...

Insulation on a motor prevents interconnection of windings and the winding to earth.  When looking at motors, it is important to understand how the insulation...

Everything physical in electrical engineering from insulations to conductors revolves around materials. Here we are listing common materials along with...

Problems on achieving maximum voltage drop within an installation come up often. Depending where you live, local regulations will have different limits...

I'm a fan of using manufacturers catalogues. There are two main reasons for this. Firstly, if your involved in the purchase of equipment, you will likely...

The windings of many medium and small sized transformers are protected by restricted earth fault (REF) systems. The illustration shows the principal of...