The war of the currents was fairly decisively won by AC. After all, whether you’ve got 110 V or 230 V coming out of your wall sockets, 50 Hz or 60 Hz, the whole world agrees that the frequency of ...

Multimeters are one of the most fundamental pieces of test equipment in any lab, but they can often do much more than we realize. Let's take a look at the variety of measurements a standard multimeter ...

DC racks have a long history- and if you are not currently using DC power distribution, it is pretty certain that you have encountered it in the past, and may still be using it every day - in your ...

BERKELEY, CA-Researchers at the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have teamed with Silicon Valley giants including Sun Microsystems, Intel, Cisco, and others ...

How power works in a data center: What you need to know Your email has been sent Electricity is often one of the least visible elements of a shiny, state-of-the-art data center. Learn more about the ...

Switches seem to be the simplest of electrical components – just two pieces of metal that can be positioned to either touch each other or not. As such it would seem that it shouldn’t matter whether a ...

When you need more power than your car's USB ports can offer, a DC-to-AC power inverter may be able to provide enough juice for gadgets and appliances. Antuan started out in the automotive industry ...