Battery Basics
Are Batteries AC or DC Current?
Alternating current (AC), as the name suggests, periodically reverses the current flow back and forth.…
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Battery Basics
Battery Basics
Inverters and Batteries Make a Great Team
We could not use renewable energy without inverters processing it first. That’s because renewables send…
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WI-FI Energy Source Replacing Batteries?
R&D tipped us off about fascinating research the Massachusetts Institute of Technology is pursuing. Their…
Battery Basics
Direct and Alternating Electric Current Compared
We have direct and alternating electric current thanks to Edison and Westinghouse competing for space…
Battery Technical
Inverters and How They Do Their Job
This is of necessity going to be a simple explanation, because the topic is quite…
Battery Technical
Batteries with a Heart in Defibrillators
We have seen defibrillators in action at the movies because they play a life-saving role.…
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How the War of Currents Gave Us 110 Volts AC
Thomas Edison launched his 110 Volt DC grid in 1882 in the face of stiff…
Battery Experiments
Bridging Across from Direct to Alternating Current
For a series of historical reasons that we do not go into detail here, we…
What is a Sine Wave
The sine wave or sinusoid is a mathematical curve that describes a smooth repetitive…
What is Polarity?
Polarity is a term used in electricity, magnetism and electronic signaling, just to name…