This whitepaper compares single phase and three phase circuits from the component count, stress level and complexity standpoints. The document shows that on most cases, single phase circuits are the ...

Bitcoin mining has seen exponential growth since the first ASIC miner was shipped in 2013, improving hardware efficiency from 1,200 J/TH to just 15 J/TH. While these advancements were driven by better ...

Keep in mind when reading any article about electrical theory or application that it only scratches the surface of the topic. You can dedicate years of your life to understanding electrical theory and ...

Today, compressor overheating is one of the HVACR industry’s most serious field problems. Compressor overheating is usually caused from high compression ratios. High compression ratios can be caused ...

The need for the current waveform to track the voltage on a three-phase power system leads to a second set of requirements, in addition to those for a single-phase power factor correction (PFC) system ...

A farmer is watering an alfalfa field 24 hours a day using a 3-phase 100-hp electric motor and adjustable speed drive (ASD). The farmer checks on his field to find the water not flowing and the pump ...

There are many reasons why one would want to measure voltage and current in a project, some applications requiring one to measure mains and even three-phase voltage to analyze the characteristics of a ...

The EnTerra Series of 3-phase UPSs is designed to protect equipment in the IT/networking, industrial, medical, and enterprise security sectors from all types of power problems. The series is available ...

In the original version of this article, the second figure contained an error. The image has been updated. It’s important for engineers to have a good, working ...