Abstract: Active rectifiers are of paramount importance for guaranteeing power quality in smart grids, due to their characteristics of sinusoidal current consumption and unitary power factor operation ...

Over on YouTube [Lockdown Electronics] reviews an old bit of kit known as the Silicon Controlled Rectifier (SCR). Invented in the 1950s the SCR is a type of thyristor and they were popular back in ...

Crowbar circuits have long been the go-to safeguard against overvoltage conditions, prized for their simplicity and ...

The relationship between data and daily operations is evolving. As teams manage shifting priorities and increasing information, interest is growing in methods that better align insight with action.

Plastics are woven into every aspect of our lives, but what was once the poster child for convenience is fast becoming a pariah product. The era of single-use plastic must end; banning it is the only ...

Ice cream comes in many different flavors. But even pure ice, which consists only of water molecules, has been discovered to exist in more than 20 different solid forms or phases that differ in the ...

However, she notes that the most common targets are single-use plastic bags, straws and packaging. Very few address the pressing issue of single-use water bottles. "Education is the most important ...

This work presents the quantitative and qualitative analysis, as well as the experimental results of a practical implementation of the Single-Phase Bridgeless Hybrid Switched Capacitor Rectifier ...

Plenty of us are trying AI in different ways, but between the scattered posts and the skepticism, it never turns into a proper conversation. Not sure this is the perfect place, but here it is. I’m not ...

We take a lighthearted look at our household fleet — four very different vehicles, yet not one that fits the bill as a true dad car. From performance machines to quirky daily drivers, here’s why ...