A microwave oven is used to cook or heat food and can be found in almost every kitchen. It passes electromagnetic waves through the food at microwave frequency range. Microwave…
A dishwasher is a piece of equipment used to clean dishware and cutlery automatically. The dishwasher was first introduced by Joel Houghton in the United States in 1850. It was…
Clothes dryers are used to remove moisture from clothes. Usually, they are used after washing clothes in a washing machine. The moisture is removed from clothes by spinning and circulating…
kW and kVA are units of power. kW stands for kilo-watts and kVA stands for kilo-volts ampere. Let's see what is the difference between kW and kVA and how to…
Transformers, alternators, UPS and power supplies are rated in kVA. kVA stands for kilo-Volt-amperes. As the name indicates, it is one kVA is equal to 1000 volt-amperes. Here is an…
Kilo-volt-amperes (kVA) and ampere are the units of two different parameters of electricity. While the former quantifies the amount of apparent power that can be supplied by the power source,…
kVA stands for kilo volt-amperes or simply 1000 volt-amperes. It is basically the unit of apparent power and is the product of RMS values of voltage and current. One kVA…
Whenever the available AC source voltage differs from the load voltage, we use transformers to increase or decrease the voltage levels. Here is a simple transformer kVA calculator, that can…
Noise is an unpleasant, unwanted and annoying sound. Transformer noise, quite commonly known as the ‘humming sound or buzzing sound’ of transformer, is one of the major problems with large…
Open circuit test and short circuit test are conducted to determine the core loss, copper loss, and equivalent circuit parameters of a transformer. In this article, in addition to the…