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...

If you have a great idea or invent something the last thing you want is someone to steal the idea. One of the things you can do is protect the intellectual...

Nikola Tesla was born exactly at midnight on July 10, 1856 in the tiny village of Smiljan, Lika in Croatia. In his late teens, Tesla left the village to...

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...

Most installations involve some form of lightning protection system which is connected to an earth electrode.  The function of the earth electrode is to...

Exposure to time varying magnetic fields, from power frequencies to the gigahertz range can have harmful consequences.  A lot of research has been conducted...

These lifts were first built in 1884 by J. E. Hall and called a paternoster ("Our Father", the first two words of the Lord's Prayer in Latin) due to its...

Here’s list of some famous scientists. Deliberately short, with the aim to provide a quick memory jog or overview. If your looking for more detailed information...

The term 'N+1' relates to redundancy and simply means that if you required 'N' items of equipment for something to work, you would have one additional...

Low voltage (LV) switchrooms are common across all industries and one of the more common spatial requirements which need to be designed into a project...