Electricity

Electricity

A database referring to the existence of a flow of electric charge.

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Mobile transformer

Electrical equipment; Electricity

A transformer that often is mounted on a leak proof base and can be installed and operated in a semi-trailer, box truck or sea freight container.

Modbus

Electrical equipment; Electricity

Proprietary communication protocol used on secondary networks between HMI, substation computers or Bay computers and protective relays.

Device utilised to convert computer data into sound that can be transmitted over phone lines. First used to send telegrams the modem received the name from the process of modulation and demodulation ...

Momentary rating

Electrical equipment; Electricity

The rating of a device to withstand momentary, very high current, without incurring damage.

Mortality curve

Electrical equipment; Electricity

A graphic representation of lamp burnout as a function of time.

Machine tool wire (MTW)

Electrical equipment; Electricity

Used for electrical connexions inside equipment.

Multi-crystalline (photovoltaic)

Electrical equipment; Electricity

A material that is solidified at such a rate that many small crystals (crystallites) form. The atoms within a single crystallite are symmetrically arranged, whereas the crystallites are jumbled ...