Key Takeaways Upgrading your electrical panel prepares your home for modern appliances and reduces fire hazards. Installing Ground Fault Circuit Interrupters (GFCIs) in wet areas prevents ...

Electrical system designers have at their disposal several types of fire resistive systems that comply with specific Code requirements. It can be helpful to ...

In general, the wiring methods presented throughout the Code are applicable for photovoltaic (PV) systems. More specifically, Part IV of Art. 690 is titled “Wiring Methods,” which helps us establish ...

The global demand for green energy sources is driving strong market growth for solar power systems. Although a great deal of development work is still focused on making PV (photovoltaic) energy ...

You might think that with all our modern technology and safety awareness, homes would have safe electrical systems by now.

The methods of protecting electronics from circuitry failures and managing inrush current at power on has evolved significantly from a simple fuse and maybe a P-channel FET to much more sophisticated ...

The objective of protective relays and protective schemes is to protect electrical equipment such as transformers, lines, cables, bus bars, etc. during abnormal system conditions. Hence, protective ...

An electrical short circuit is the most common cause of accidental fires in domestic, commercial and industrial buildings. Several recent fires in garment factories in Bangladesh drew the attention of ...

SPICE circuit simulations are a powerful design tool to analyze a system's immunity against conducted EMI surge voltages. SPICE can serve as a valuable tool to validate and optimize the performance of ...