The article in the March 3 issue of The News dealt with the secondary windings of a Delta service transformer with one winding center-tapped to the ground. The article stated that the power-leg or ...

Wye or “star” service transformers are one and the same. The names come from the secondary winding configuration, which looks like a “Y” or three-sided star (Figure 1). For the remainder of this ...

When alternating current (AC) prevailed over direct current (DC) in the late 1800s, one of the deciding factors was the need for voltage levels to be raised and lowered throughout the power system to ...