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.

Learn why modern marine and mobile DC power systems rely on Blue Sea Systems bus bars, fuse blocks, and proper circuit ...

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 ...

Dean Stange, principal electrical designer at Stanley Consultants, assists distribution designer Cody Schuster on overhead distribution design issues for a project in Colorado. Stange has been ...

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

Vicor’s Gary Gill says that using high-voltage DC for power distribution offers tangible and significant benefits for both sourcing options and system end-to-end performance. New technical ...

Think about the last time your command needed mobile power in the field. This probably required the servicing, maintenance, dispatching, and recovery of an Advanced Medium Mobile Power Source (AMMPS) ...

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, ...