In An AC Current Generator, Part 1, I talked about the overall principle in creating an AC current generator. Today I am going to start to describe how to create a transformer, specifically to ...

An electric current can be induced in in a coil of wire by moving a magnet in and out of the coil. AC generators are used in the generation of electricity and in their simplest form consist of a coil ...

Electricity comes in two basic forms: Alternating Current (AC) and Direct Current (DC). DC is handy to use and is easy to analyze. However, AC has some useful properties too. In particular, AC current ...

I wrote an article on this topic in 2000 that was published on Circuit Cellar Online. Despite what the alarmists may tell you that nothing is ever deleted on the Internet, I have evidence to the ...