Battery Basics
Are Batteries AC or DC Current?
Alternating current (AC), as the name suggests, periodically reverses the current flow back and forth.…
Browsing: Direct Current
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…
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 Technical
Thomas Edison and the 110-Volt Light Bulb
Thomas Edison was a serial inventor. He began his career tinkering with telegraphy equipment before…
Battery Basics
Film Capacitors Are Not Just for Movies
Film capacitors are functionally similar to ceramic capacitors because they are both non-polarized. We can…
Battery Experiments
Bridging Across from Direct to Alternating Current
For a series of historical reasons that we do not go into detail here, we…
Battery Technical
An Inclinator Fit for a King & Other Tales
King Henry VIII was the first recorded owner of a stairlift, after he hurt his…
Making Robot Responders More Energy Efficient
Sandia National Laboratories is taking on one of the biggest barriers to the use…
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…