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...

The other day I was talking to a colleague who is a building services consultant.  Despite regularly specifying dry-type/cast resin transformers he was...

Have an opinion or something to say, want to ask or answer questions, share your knowledge then use our site to do it . As a community of people interested...

Three phase systems are derived from three separate windings, either connected in delta or star (wye). Each winding can be treated separately, leading...

When thinking about watts (W) or kilowatt (kW = 1000 W) it can be useful too keep in mind the fundamental ideas behind the unit. Watt is not a pure electrical...

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...

We have had the Wiki with us for a long time now, but at last I have decided to say bye bye – more details on why below.

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...

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

Request to look at induction motor starting time have come up a few times on the site. Hopefully in this post, I give you guys some idea on how to calculate...