As electrical professionals, it’s important to have a basic understanding of several design criteria that are important to the design, operation, and maintenance of electrical distribution systems.

Redundancy in power sources, including multiple utility feeds and paralleling generators, is crucial for ensuring continuous operation during outages. Proper load assessment and equipment redundancy ...

In the early 2000s, I vividly recall my father, a self-taught programmer and electrical engineer, developing a Visual Basic application to calculate voltage regulation for his local utility company.

How to avoid common mistakes made concerning power distribution in connectors and PCBs. What rules of thumb are no longer valid? Why heat matters so much in PCB power distribution. As new designs come ...

Part 1 of this series dealt with overall wiring system design as providing the critical foundation for the growth in automotive electronics systems and functionality. In that installment we looked at ...

Advantages of Power over Ethernet in the context of industrial Ethernet. PoE standards continue to evolve to keep pace with increasing power demands. Driver for standards updating is the potential ...

A more distributed power distribution network will help utilities better navigate the wave of changes resulting from the smart grid. Very few industries will experience the rapid change that power ...

In common with utilities around the world, parts of Eskom’s medium-voltage distribution network in South Africa suffer from pole-top fires, adversely impacting reliability. A.K. Persadh studied this ...

Siemens and Rittal have entered a strategic partnership to jointly develop future-proof, sustainable solutions for more ...

Just about every product and machine we come in contact with uses electricity. To keep us safe, almost all of them have built-in safety features, especially those on the factory floor. Technicians, ...