When I inspect houses where an amateur has been doing electrical work, there's a good chance that I'll find outlets with reversed polarity. This happens when the hot and neutral wires get flipped ...

This is a guest article by Adrian Mikolajczak of Fairchild Semiconductor. Reverse polarity, which is the result of a steady-state reverse bias or a negative transient, can cause serious problems in an ...

It’s a problem that’s been around for as long as there have been battery-powered systems: you load the battery the wrong way, with the poles inverted, and create a reverse-polarity event. The system ...