There are few things more panic-inducing than turning your key or pushing your start button and hearing something that doesn't sound quite right. It could be clicking, grinding, or worst of all, ...

Solenoids are everywhere. They open the water valve in your dishwasher, control the flow of gas in your stove, regulate ink delivery in printers, and play a crucial role under the hood of your car.

Neuroscientists have reconstructed the first complete wiring map of the fruit-fly brain, including 140,000 neurons and more than 50 million connections. This resource has already begun to ...

Polaris is recalling 80,000 all-terrain vehicles sold in the U.S. due to improper wiring that can cause the front brakes to fail and create fire hazards, the Consumer Product Safety Commission ...

If you really think about it, starting our cars as easily as we do every day is something of a modern miracle. We jump into our vehicles, turn a key (or even just push a button on many occasions), and ...

Figure 1. Three-phase (three-pole) electromagnetic across-the-line motor-starters. Three-pole (three-phase) electromagnetic motor-starters (Figure 1) are commonly used to control integral-horsepower ...

There’s a few open source options out there for creating electrical schematics. KiCad and Fritzing are two that will take you from schematic capture to PCB layout. However, there’s been limited ...

This article applies to the Mercedes-Benz E-Class AMG (2002-2009). The starter is an electro-mechanical device that rotates the engine fast enough for centrifugal force to take over. The starter ...

CYPRESS, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Yamaha Motor Corp., U.S.A., today announced its 2014 ATV Race Team in conjunction with its annual Feed the Children food drop and employee celebration at its ...

You hop in your Dodge diesel and turn the key only to be greeted with a click-click sound, instead of the more familiar whirring of your starter motor. Something is wrong. You somehow knew that the ...