The harnessing of electricity has played a pivotal role in human history and has exponentially expedited our growth as a species. Since becoming a household commodity in the late 19th century, ...

If you’re like me, you have hazy memories from high school physics class about the difference between alternating current (AC ...

Power relays are specifically designed to handle either AC or DC. It’s important to know the fundamental differences between them before building them into a system. Introduction to AC and DC Power ...

As the story goes, the rock band AC/DC took its name from a label on an old sewing machine in the Young brothers’ home. It must have meant that the machine could run on either alternating-current or ...

AC/DC power supply manufacturers have focused their latest designs on meeting the increased demand for higher efficiency and miniaturization in industrial and medical systems. A few of them are also ...

A solid-state transformer (SST) is an AC-AC converter, sometimes called a power electronics transformer (PET), that replaces ...