Power Diode - Structure, Symbol, Characteristics and Types: Diodes find many applications in electronics and electrical engineering circuits. Power diodes play a significant role in power electronics for conversion of…
Elemental Semiconductor Materials: Group IV includes five elements viz., Carbon (C), Silicon (Si), Germanium (Ge), Tin (Sn) and lead (Pb). The elements of this subgroup show marked similarity as well…
Thyratron Working Principle: Thyratron is a hot cathode gas filled triode. Normally it is filled with a small amount of inert gas such as argon, hydrogen, neon or mercury vapour.…
Pin Diagram of 8250 UART: Pin Diagram of 8250 UART - The UART stands for Universal Asynchronous Receiver Transmitter. The UART is used in parallel-to-serial and serial-to-parallel conversions. Actually, UART…
Direct Testing of Circuit Breaker: The Direct Testing of Circuit Breaker in a plant enables us to test under conditions largely representing those in actual network as well as tests…
Design of Current Carrying Capacity Systems: The Current Carrying Capacity Systems of a circuit breaker consists not only of electrical conductors but also of mechanical devices like springs which do…
Vacuum Circuit Breaker: Although the advantages of interrupting the arc in a vacuum were recognized as early as the nineteenth century, this did not find wide application till a few…
Oil Circuit Breaker: Oil Circuit Breaker are extensively employed in our power systems. In these the properties of the arc are employed for arc extinction. Thus by using arc energy…