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...

Power cables can basically be classified into earthed and unearthed cables, where earthed and unearthed refer to the application for which the cable is...

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

Reading is a bit of a hobby of mine and I"ve done a few off-topic posts in the past on this. Rather than continue doing the occasional post I thought ...

GE have put together a time-lapse video shown flight take-off and landings at some airports. An interesting view:

This is the second post in a series of two on periodic electrical inspections. In the first post, I discussed how often inspections should be carried out...

This article gives an introduction to IEEE 485 method for the selection and calculation of battery capacity.

The standard aims to consolidate AC and traction voltages within the industry and defines the following bands: band 1 - A.C. systems 100 V to 1...

Fire resistant and fire retardant cable sheaths are design to resist combustion and limit the propagation of flames. Low smokes cables have a sheath designed...

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