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

While standard receptacles typically use three wires -- hot, neutral and ground -- you'll occasionally find 2-prong outlets in older homes. Since this type of outlet lacks a ground connection, the ...

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Abstract: The open-circuit fault detection and localization (FDL) technique can improve the reliability of the modular multilevel converter (MMC). However, the conventional software-based FDL methods ...

Abstract: An active balancing circuit based on a buck--boost converter is proposed to deal with unbalanced states of battery packs. The proposed circuit has low-frequency bidirectional switches to ...

Still got your cordless phone? It could be the only thing keeping you connected to the world when there's a massive mobile outage. Ian Sherr Contributor and Former Editor at Large / News Ian Sherr (he ...