A “loose neutral” in a residential location can cause equipment damage and even a house fire. An open neutral may start as a high-resistance connection that shows subtle signs in waveform capture data ...

Traditional multilevel converters (MLCs) give devices the high performance and efficiency required to keep up with advancing technology, but their complex systems and high number of required power ...

A well-known solution for electrical noise in industrial plants is the constant-voltage transformer, or CVT. These devices can filter distortion and notches from input voltages (see Fig. 1). CVTs have ...

As previously stated, single-phase full-bridge inverters are utilized to convert direct current into alternating current. The circuit utilizes electrical switches that function in pairs. During one ...

For the PDF version of this article, click here. Traditional power factor corrected designs utilize a boost topology to accomplish the input power factor correction (PFC) function. The boost topology ...