Power factor correction: Part 1

Electronics

There are thousands of articles online about power factor correction. However i wanted to create a post summarizing the problem and a simple active solution. What is it? First lets look into the what “power factor” actually is. Power factor is a number which remains unit-less and generally speaking the perfect value is 1, we’ll…

Part 1: Front Panel Labels

Electronics, enclosures, Graphics

Back when I first joined the Electronics Section at The University of Manchester. when we designed equipment we would label it with Dymo labels. Weeks sometimes months of detailed thought, design, construction and testing would be finished with 5 minute, wonky labels, that dropped off 3 months later. I personally think aesthetics and UI/UX is…