In my consulting business, I have the opportunity to peer review construction documents prepared by other electrical engineering firms. In doing so, I find it astounding how many times I comment on ...

Design engineers know that both brush DC and brushless DC (BLDC) motors can operate as generators, but many tend to avoid running brushed DC motors in generating mode because they believe it is ...

The concept of building your own hydroelectric generator seems simple at face value: use gravity to impart as much force as possible onto a turbine, which spins a generator, thus generating ...

Information technology (IT) has been growing exponentially as people’s day-to-day lives grow more dependent on data processing. This data is processed by super computers, stored in data centers, and ...

In the first installment of this three-part series of articles, featured in the August 2024 print issue and online, we discussed fire pump requirements along with Code-related references in the ...