If you look at the side of your vehicle's tires, you'll notice a line of numbers. One of these number sets is the tire load index. Here's what that means.

Figure 1 shows an 8- to 40-V input, 5-V output at 4-A maximum load current, dc-dc converter. It uses two LT3430 60-V monolithic, 3-A (peak switch current) buck regulators in parallel.

Maximum loads occurred for an easterly wind direction. Scientists in South Africa have conducted full-scale research on the effect of wind load on PV panel mounting rails for more than 100 days.

By calculating an annual increase of 8 percent, it becomes 18,876 MW. The load will rise to 18,203 MW in 2025 when calculating an increase of 4 percent, and 20,386 megawatts at a rate of 8 percent. As ...