If you think shorting a transformer’s winding means big sparks and fried wires: think again. In this educational video, titled The Magnetic Bypass, [Sam Ben-Yaakov] flips this assumption. By ...

I see techs in the field get the most frustrated when they have a low-voltage short they can’t seem to locate. The challenge techs face with low voltage diagnosis is a combination of poor process and ...

Short Circuits The Melody of a Miswire About 40 years ago, I was helping my old friend Tom change out a furnace. He was a licensed warm air mechanic, and I was a journeyman electrician. The door chime ...

Short circuit faults are called shunt faults. An open-circuit condition is known as a series fault. Any phase/circuit to ground condition is called a ground fault. Among all faults, a balanced 3-phase ...

Fig 1. This gate drive transformer circuit provides the MOSFET drive signals ranging from 50% down to 0% while maintaining a fast turn-off time.

All the four units of the Kalinin Nuclear Power Plant (NPP) some 200 miles northwest of Moscow are working at full capacity on Saturday after three of them went offline as a result of a short ...

Several incidents of trees being uprooted, house wall collapses, and electrical short circuits have been reported from different parts of the state.