It wasn't so long ago I was telling someone that I don't use rules of thumb as most things are easily calculated anyhow.   As it turns out I last week...

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

A lot of our members work in countries where PPE (personal protective equipment) is regulated or they work for companies/organizations which take employee...

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

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

American inventor Thomas Alva Edison was born in Milan, Ohio on February 11, 1847. He was the youngest of seven children and received little formal schooling...

If two dissimilar metals are touching and an external conducting path exists, corrosion of one the metals can take place.  Moisture or other materials...

Circuit breakers are switching devices whose primary function is to isolate parts of an electrical distribution system in the even of abnormal conditions...

A single phase system is perhaps the most common type of system most people are familiar with. This is what people have in their homes and what appliances...

I've recently come across this question a couple times browsing the internet. Decided to give a quick answer here. A rectifier transformer is a transformer...