Electrical Engineering

Picture a beam cantilevered out from a wall with a weight hung off the outer end. The place it would need to resist bending the most is right next to the wall

A single-phase transformer works with a single-phase supply, while a 3-phase transformer is used with a 3-phase supply.

A single-phase transformer has 2 wires on the primary and secondary (ignoring taps) while a 3-phase tansformer has 3 or 4 wires on the primary and secondary.

Depends on the motor. If it is a synchronous motor it will run too fast.

question is not clear. RMS is .707 of peak. If you're asking about sums of currents or voltages represented by sine waves and they don't have the same frequency then the sum's RMS value is the square root of the sum of the squared amplitudes of the two waves. The squared amplitudes are proportional to the power in each current or voltage and the result represents the sum of the powers.

If the two sine waves have the same frequency then the sum's RMS value is the sum of the two RMS values. The physical circuit has to add power to the signal. (if the amplitudes are equal the resultant will have 4 times the power)

Step-down transformer is used at grid substations for feeding various substations which further step down the voltage for feeding distributing transformers and further step down transformers are used to supply the voltage for the consumer uses

Voltage (of a circuit) as defined in the NEC: n. The greatest root-mean-square(rms) (effective) difference of potential between any two conductors of the circuit concerned. Voltage as defined by Webster's: n. Electromotive force or potential difference, usually expressed in volts.

One horsepower electric is 746 watts. Divide that by 415 to get amps, giving about 1.8. Divide that further by 3 because it is three phase power, giving about 0.6. Divide that further by power factor to compensate for apparent versus true power caused by reactance, say about 0.8, giving about 0.75.

Photovoltaic Cells: Converting Photons to ElectronsThe solar cells that you see on calculators andsatellites are photovoltaic cells or modules (modules are simply a group of cells electrically connected and packaged in one frame). Photovoltaic, as the word implies (photo = light, voltaic = electricity), convert sunlight directly into electricity. Once used almost exclusively in space, photovoltaics are used more and more in less exotic ways. They could even power your house. How do these devices work? Photovoltaic (PV) cells are made of special materials called semiconductors such as silicon, which is currently the most commonly used. Basically, when light strikes the cell, a certain portion of it is absorbed within the semiconductor material. This means that the energy of the absorbed light is transferred to the semiconductor. The energy knocks electrons loose, allowing them to flow freely. PV cells also all have one or more electric fields that act to force electrons freed by light absorption to flow in a certain direction. This flow of electrons is a current, and by placing metal contacts on the top and bottom of the PV cell, we can draw that current off to use externally. For example, the current can power a calculator. This current, together with the cell's voltage (which is a result of its built-in electric field or fields), defines the power (or wattage) that the solar cell can produce. That's the basic process, but there's really much more to it. Let's take a deeper look into one example of a PV cell: the single-crystal silicon cell.

A wire with some resistance and a voltage applied to it

The amount of current I passing this wire is V/R

The time base of an oscilloscope is used to increase or decrease the time per division value on the Y-axis ranging from few tens of seconds to micro seconds to nanoseconds used for microwave signals.If you increase the time base of an oscilloscope lesser and lesser part of the signal will be present in one division of the Y-axis. Setting the time base to a proper value will enable you to see high frequency signals clearly otherwise each cycle of the signal would be indistinguishable from the other huehue

The motor's manufacturer is the one who decides how much overloading can be done to their product. As different motors are wound for different applications the motor's engineering department decides what the specifications of each motor type should be. The most common service factor is 1.15. On the motor's nameplate it will be shown as SF 1.15.

The simplest answer is that the electric utility uses a transformer across 2 of the 3 hot leads to develop a single hot lead with an earth reference. What follows below is frequently edited by both amateurs and professionals, with mixed results. Wikipedia is a better source of more detailed information on this subject, in part because the article on three phase power has pictures.

It work on principle based on the Faradays Law of Electro Magnetic Induction.Whenever Conductor cuts a magnetic flux an Electromagnetic Force is induced on the conductor causing a current flow trough it.

The website Ehow has detailed instructions on how to install a voltage stabilizer. It is installed into an existing circuit to protect a component from receiving more voltage than it can handle.

Yes, you can. Here's why.

If a supply's output is rated at 12 volts DC (12 VDC) and 500 milliamperes (500mA), it can deliver a maximum of 500mA at the 12 volt rating. You want to use a 12VDC supply that is rated at 1A (1000mA). That means that the supply is capable of delivering up to 1A at 12VDC. Now the crux of the matter.

Your device, that's the load on the supply, needs 12VDC to operate. Your replacement supply is rated at 12VDC. No problem. Your supply delivered a max of 500mA. That does NOT mean that your load, that thing you're powering up, actually uses all 500mA. Your load knows how much current it needs to draw. Your supply has to be rated for more than that. Your supply was rated at 500mA. It worked well. The supply you wish to use will deliver a max of 1A (1000mA). It will easily supply the current your load will use. Oh, and the polarity of the new supply must be the same as that of the old one. That's pretty obvious. Always be safe and consult an electronics specialist for electrical questions. There are a number of savvy folks working at consumer electrical outlets who can get you up to speed.

Gray code is useful because only one bit changes at a time. When used as encoders for a position sensor, for instance, if the sensor were right at the edge of a change boundary, there is uncertainty as to position. Binary code would introduce variable uncertainty in position, because more than one bit can change at a time, but gray code would reduce that uncertainty to being only one bit position in size.

In most appliances the single thing that prevents an overload is the fuse. In modern electronics there are various devices that can be used for power management which can limit the current drawn by reducing the load voltage. see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Current_limiting

Back to back test give data for finding the regulation , efficiency and heating under load condition. Back to back test is performed in the presence of two identical transformer. In this test one transformer remains open and other remains loaded. Hence sumpner's back to back test is generalised form of o/c test and s/c test which is performed within one test only. Hence from this test we find core loss and full load copper loss simultaneously at a time.

While I can't offer uber-technical reason, some commen sense reasons jump to mind: 1. if the device being protected shorts to ground, then a fuse on the neutral side would not blow, thus not protecting the device and wiring. 2. it's better sense to put the fuse as close to the main power as possible, like to a main breaker or meter, so that if the fuse does have to blow, more line is unenergized, decreasing the likely hood of further equipment damage or even personal injury. 3. if the fuse is on the neutral side and it blows, how do you know which device made the fuse blow? trouble shooting is more complicated as you have to test more devices. 4. with my limited understanding of multi phase power, the total current 'seen' through the neutral is often less than the current through each phase, so the device that fails could do much more damage by having to blow a fuse on the neutral side. note: reason 4 is up for debate as I'm not sure I'm correct, it's only what I have understood from some reading.

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Verify wiring layouts by making measurements, before connecting and/or energizing equipment. A 120V single phase 2 wire should have one hot wire, a 230V single phase 2 wire should be assumed to have two hot wires, and a 230V single phase 3 wire also should have two hot wires.

I assume a series of amplifiers with one F/B The F/B is the portion of voltage/current F/B from input to output no matter how many amplifiers are in series within the loop or what the gain of each one is.