Generating Insights

Generating Insights

Generating Insights: Bar-wound Versus Wire-wound Generators
While it is dangerous to make general characterizations about anything as complex as generator design, we describe the difference in design between bar-wound (also called form-wound) and wire-wound (also called random-wound) generators, and provide…
Generating Insights: Genuine Versus Counterfeit Alternators
“The bitterness of poor quality remains long after the sweetness of low price is forgotten.” These famous words quoted by Benjamin Franklin all those years ago were, I suspect, aimed at different things, or with different connotations. However, in…
Generating Insights: A Guide To Standby Generator Systems
An Introduction To Standby Generators The purpose of standby generators are basically to provide power when the mains utility supply fails. To prevent the two sources of power from being mis-synchronised together, standby generators are typically…
Generating Insights: Understanding the impact of the environment on alternator design
Globalisation and the advancements in transportation and logistics has enabled us to address the growing demand by setting up ad-hoc power plants using reciprocating engine driven gensets; this has also meant that gensets are being used in harsher…
Generating Insights: A Guide to Data Centre power requirements
The demand for Data Centres In today's culture, each of us carries some sort of electronic device. Whether it is a smart phone, music player, tablet or laptop computer, at some point the device is connecting to the internet. There are applications…