Customer Case Studies: Customer Case Study #1: Military Application CTM Magnetics engineered the highest power density solution of it's kind in order to solve a power conversion problem no one else could. Now, CTM parts are used on all DDG 1000 class US Naval...
Microgrids are Growing Washington state received $7 million from the state's Clean Energy Fund, which has been earmarked to improve the efficiency, security, and reliability of Washington's electrical grid. A portion of the grant is being applied to build a microgrid...
Thanks to Michael Faraday's work in the early 19th century, electricity has been generated at centralized facilities beginning in 1882, initially using coal and water power. In the past 135 years, other non-renewable fuels—oil, natural gas and nuclear—have joined coal...
CTM MAGNETICS RECEIVES ISO 9001:2015 CERTIFICATION CTM Magnetics has been certified under ISO 9001:2015. This certification verifies that CTM is aware of and complies with the requirements recognized to produce quality products. CTM Magnetics is a design, engineering...
Due to higher densities, specific heat capacities, and thermal conductivities, liquids are generally much better cooling agents than gases. Compared to air, water has a heat carrying capacity 3,500 times higher than that of air, and a thermal conductivity 24 times...
When engineers design an electronic device and pack scores of components onto circuit boards and into enclosures, it is guaranteed the device will generate heat in addition to doing its intended job. In high power applications, the problem of unwanted heat magnifies....
Electronic components including solid state devices, resistors, capacitors, inductors and others are all susceptible to failure from overheating. The expected life of any component, and of any final product built from those components, is affected by the temperature...
Line/load reactors are inductors; coils of wire that oppose the flow of alternating current and limit the current that can flow through the circuits into which they are placed. They are used in two principal applications. Load reactors are generally used with motors...
Introduction: In order to understand the basics of sine wave filters, we first need to look at how motor drive systems work. Motors that operate on alternating current need special power supplies that deliver power to start and stop the motor smoothly. If the motor...
About Wind Energy Thanks to the sun's heating effect upon the Earth, the atmosphere is in a continual state of moving and mixing. Every cubic foot of air weighs about 1.3 ounces; when that air moves, it exerts force on obstacles in its path when it moves as...
NASA estimates the sun converts nearly four million tons of matter to energy every second. The portion that reaching Earth’s upper atmosphere equates to about five pounds converted each second, which is equivalent to about 1,367 watts per square meter. The entire...
Reactors/Inductors: CTM'S Cost-Effective Solution for Protecting Electronic Equipment “Reactor” is another name for an inductor, which is a passive electrical component which resists changes in electric current. An inductor consists of a conductor, which is most often...