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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Nikola Tesla Strode the Stage, And Was Gone
Nikola Tesla strode the stage of electric history. We should do more than just remember…
Battery Technical
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…
An Advanced Power-Conversion Switch Helps Upgrade U.S. Power Grid
Researchers at General Electric Co. enlisted the help of the U.S. Department of Energy’s…
What is Polarity?
Polarity is a term used in electricity, magnetism and electronic signaling, just to name…
The History of AC vs. DC
J Just about every home and business is wired for Alternating Current (AC). However,…
Nikola Tesla: Great Genius of Our Time
Nikola Tesla was a Serbian American inventor and is considered one of the twentieth century’s…