The best portable generators and power stations offer a practical backup for outages big and small, keeping critical devices ...

In a software-driven world, it's easy to forget about the nuts and bolts. Whether it's cars, robots, personal gadgetry or industrial machines, Candace Lombardi examines the moving parts that keep our ...

While renewable energy offers many opportunities for decentralizing energy production, it can sometimes feel that doing so on a truly local level remains unachievable with increasingly large ...

You can think of a generator as a motor that runs in reverse. Instead of supplying electricity to a stator to make the rotor spin, a generator is mechanically driven to make its rotor spin to supply ...

Stepper motors are a subject that keeps recurring. This little circuit changes a clock signal (from a square wave generator) into signals with a 90-degree phase difference, which are required to drive ...

Barry Dlugasz, director, Honda Power Equipment Sales, American Honda Motor Company, Inc., shares his insight into the generator sector of the equipment rental industry. They have new standards coming, ...