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...

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...

It's been a busy few months on different projects or busy couple of decades depending on how I look at it. I can say that on the odd (frequent) occasion...

The other day I came across an article in Technology Review on the development of a smart transformer. A professor at North Carolina State University is...

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

Estimating maximum demand is a topic frequently discussed. Working out how much power to allow for a building can be very subjective . Allowing too much...

Multimeters are undoubtedly the most common item of electrical test equipment in use.  Often it is the first piece of equipment people will turn to when...

MIT OpenCourseWare, makes the materials used in teaching all MIT subjects available on the Web, free of charge, to any user in the world.

Modelica is an open source (free) software language for modelling complex systems. Having never used it before, I thought I would download a development...

Years ago I was told that you should always try to write the best report you can.  Many years later I still think on this as one of the better pieces of...