Consistency is a term that applies as much to street/strip Mustangs as it does to all-out race cars. It's due to the trickle-down effect, and one such component to help anyone be more consistent in a ...

Motor control centers (MCCs) were first introduced in 1937 as a way to conserve wall and/or floor space in industrial facilities. Before 1960, wall-mounted motor starters were used even if only a few ...

In the years since our vintage Fords were new, many items of convenience once optional have become standard equipment. Air conditioning, AM/FM stereo, tilt steering column, and even power windows have ...

Vector Control, also known as Field Oriented Control or FOC is an AC motor control scheme that enables fine-grained control over a connected motor, through the precise control of its phases. In a ...

In Part 1 of this two-part series, we presented a 3-phase, 480VAC motor circuit with its associated controls (Figure). We stepped through a logical, systematic approach to troubleshoot the main power ...

The new Magellan™ electronic control for fractional-hp, residential motors is mounted separately from the motor, making it easier to install and service the controls, the manufacturer says. The ...

Over three decades ago, real-time software was predominantly written in assembly language or a combination of assembly and the C programming language. Even today, certain digital signal processing ...

Two new reference designs aim to simplify the industrial and home-appliance motor drives for compressors, respectively while being accompanied by production-ready PCB and motor-control firmware. The ...