With the increasing frequency of natural disasters including hurricanes, tornadoes, wildfires and winter storms, electric utilities have proactively transitioned overhead lines to underground circuits ...

How does this cable actually work? Here’s a technical look at the product’s development, construction, and application in the field. Typical installation utilizing self-regulating heater cable. Over ...

When current flows through a wire, it doesn't always have a perfect path. Tiny defects within the wire mean current must travel a more circuitous route, a problem for engineers and manufacturers ...

For years, commercial garages have been the source of serious safety hazards, considering their potential for fire and explosion. Service pits, for example, have been the site of workers trapped under ...

THIS treatise gives a good account, both historical and scientific, of cable manufacture. Wire was originally made by beating metal into plates, which were then cut into strips and rounded by ...

High-temperature superconducting cables deliver up to 10 times as much power as conventional electric power transmission cables. They are poised to help to reduce grid congestion as well as ...

Underground electrical cable systems are used by power companies around the world. Two recently updated specifications and guides provide system designers and engineers with important information to ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Purdue University engineers have invented a new, patent-pending charging station cable that would fully recharge certain electric vehicles in under five minutes – about the same ...

Rob Conway of the Lapp Group USA gives Lee Teschler of EE&T some tips on the type of cable needed inside wind turbine nacelles. Feb. 24, 2010 Rob Conway of the Lapp Group USA gives Lee Teschler of ...

• Expanding PTFE lets engineers tailor its form and properties. • ePTFE in cable insulators, binders, and jackets can prolong flex life. • The cables’ low particulation and outgassing makes them good ...

How retimers make active electrical cables possible. How e-Tube will help copper cables exceed 800G. 400G copper cables make up the bulk of connections in data centers these days, with 800G and 1.6T ...