Arc Flash Hazards (NFPA 70E)
Basics - The danger most people associate with electrical systems is shock: You touch a wire and a metal frame and experience a jolt of...
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Electrical Design Tips & Articles
Breaker & Fuse
May 13, 20223 min read
Transformer Zero Sequence Impedance
Transformers are commonly specified and ordered based on a few key parameters, including the primary and secondary voltages, the apparent...
May 12, 20224 min read
Heat Transfer
Basics - Heat transfer isn't what comes to most people's mind when they hear "electrical engineering", but for power systems engineers...
May 12, 20222 min read
Constant S and Constant Z Loads
Electrical power systems engineers, especially those working on systems at the distribution level, are generally required to complete...
May 12, 20222 min read
Energy Storage Systems (NEC 706)
Battery energy storage systems (BESS) have long been held as a vital part of the shift to renewable energy. Renewables like wind and...
May 12, 20223 min read
Critical and Creative Thinking in Engineering
Too many times have I heard an engineer (or student) tell me, "I like engineering because things are black and white. You can always find...
May 11, 20222 min read
Working with Other Engineering Disciplines
In the real world, electrical engineers don't work in isolation. For better or worse, there are always overlaps of engineering...
May 6, 20222 min read
Capacitors (NEC 460)
General - Capacitors are commonly used as standalone devices in industrial, transmission, and distribution power systems to compensate...
May 4, 20224 min read
Relays, Ladder Logic, and Control
Ladder logic is the dominant representation of controls in power systems. Learn more about ladder logic, relaying, and boolean algebra here
May 2, 20222 min read
Margin-Designing for the Real World
"Electrical engineers design to standards". This was a phrase one of my college professors shared with me in a professional practice...
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