Hurricane?  What Hurricane?

A gorgeous Cliffside estate in Los Cabos, Baja, California, is fortified with wall-mounted Torus Power isolation transformer to eliminate electrical vulnerabilities Storm season has arrived, and electronic systems contractors and integrators know all too well what...

Understanding the Torus Power isolation transformer

Let’s start with power demand and quality… The electrical load in a home today is much different than it was for past generations. Today’s homes have so many more devices to power like computers and printers, chargers for wireless devices, modems, routers and home...

Measuring Acoustic Noise Emitted by Power Transformers

This paper proposes a new Measurement Standardization Procedure to measure and quantify the acoustic noise produced by power transformers in audio and video equipment under normal and adverse mains conditions. These conditions and the physical mechanisms that cause...

Solving Inrush at the Source

Reprinted from Power Electronics Magazine, Cover Story, April 2004 – The use of special core materials and transformer design/construction techniques overcomes the limitations of common inrush control solutions.