Needless to say the two-storey transformers at the dams were huge electrical devices. With any electrical device there are rare occasions where something goes wrong and it, well, blows up as was the case at Mica. Transformer malfunctions on this scale are not your typical puff of black magic...
So, you can imagine it can take a long time after a storm or natural disaster to replace every broken electrical pole. Replacing blown transformers, broken utility poles, and restringing power cables are some of the tasks utility providers do after a storm. An Outage When A Transformer Blows...
The electrical power system in Seattle is massive and complex. It is built of transmission lines,generators, and transformers. Because of its complexity along with the environmental conditions that are typical for this region, including heavy rains and winds, there is a high chance of a fault in...
“There’s a lot that goes into power conditioning. Once you start adding all these features you see that the more complex an electrical system gets, the more likely they are to introduce their own noise. So the design process was about, ‘How do we add all these different features while...
Most surge protectors have a face that only their electrical engineer mothers could love; cheap black (or white!) plastic crudely molded into a chunky rectangular box. And that’s fine if you’re hiding it behind your sofa. But if your surge protector will be in plain sight, the Austere ...
To understand more let us start by looking at the relationship between electricity and magnetism and how this lead to the invention of electric motors and transformers which is the basis for how we can regulate or stablise the voltage in our electrical supply. In 1820 Hans Christian Orsted firs...
Many trains operate solely on electrical power. They get the electricity from a third rail, or electrical line, which is present along the track. Transformers transfer the voltage from the lines, and the electrical current enables the motors on the wheels to move. Electrical locomotives are usua...
You can do it kicking and screaming, but you have to do it. 1. Don’t fear rock bottom. When I got home from my last day of work, I told my roommate I was out of a job and proceeded to cry so hard for so long that I choked on my own snot. That was my low point this ...
Here is the ALMOST finished outside project. The last thing I need to do is re-run the transformer cables through the electrical boxes. I probably should have used a 1″ PVC pipe between the Service Panel and the GEM box as the power cables have a large plug on them and the pipe has...
In the old days, the most common way to apply AM modulation was to modulate the high voltage to the plate of the tubes, using a transformer and a powerful audio amplifier. In low voltage solid state circuits, you can still do it using transformers, but you can also use series transistors...