The evacuation of bulk electrical power over long distances can be done mainly by high voltage alternating current (HVAC) ...

As the famed Australian group continues its Power Up tour, its debut album, High Voltage, celebrates its 50th anniversary. By Steve Knopper Fifty-one years ago, after trying out Zorro, Superman and ...

Making a dc voltage from an ac source means you will have to rectify the ac voltage to get a dc bus. One difference compared to a dc-dc converter is that you can use a linear power supply with an ac ...

Used to deliver power to your home, office, and any other building you can think of, alternating current (AC) voltage is relied on to provide power flawlessly on a daily basis. But why isn’t direct ...

As the story goes, the rock band AC/DC took its name from a label on an old sewing machine in the Young brothers’ home. It must have meant that the machine could run on either alternating-current or ...

The input-rectifier stage of anoffline power supply converts anac-line voltage to a dc voltage, whichpowers a dc/dc converter. If you configurethe rectifier section as a full-wavebridge for a ...