FBI director Christopher Wray recently released a warning about a state-sponsored group of hackers known as Volt Typhoon. Addressing a US committee, Wray warned that Volt Typhoon was “the defining ...

Did you know that 1 horsepower is the amount of power required to lift 550 pounds to a height of 1 foot in 1 second? Or, did you know that a foot-pound of torque is literally 1 pound of force exerted ...

US-China News: China has conducted cyber attacks on the US infrastructure in response to America's backing to Taiwan, which Beijing sees as its own territory. A report said that some Chinese officials ...

There are cases when "bigger is better," and this seems to be one of them. The introduction of the 16-volt battery in the '90s left many wondering about its need. While many racers were taking a ...

With the advent of the electric era comes an entirely new lexicon for the automotive enthusiast to familiarize themselves with—kilowatt-hours, MPGe, SAE J1772—but few seem as poorly understood or as ...

The familiar five volts standard from back in the TTL days always struck me as odd. Back when I was just a poor kid trying to cobble together my first circuits from the Forrest Mims Engineer’s ...

Most electric vehicles on sale today run on a 400-volt architecture, but there are a handful of models that double that and operate at 800 volts. The number of 800-volt EVs is on the rise, and this is ...

Assuming that they're in series, 6v nominally for alkaline, as low as 4.8 for NiMH. Batteries are specced in Amp-Hours, not amps--amperage is a rate, Ah is a quantity indicating the amount of energy ...

Improper voltage is the one of the greatest causes of failed compressors in three-phase units. We are allowed a 10% deviation over or under the unit nameplate-rated voltage. Most technicians know to ...