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Over the past year or so I've been involved in on going discussions related to referring fault levels from the secondary of a transformer to the primary...
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I received this question by email a few weeks. First thoughts was that it is a product of the mathematics of rotating a straight conductor in a magnetic...
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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...
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