Editor’s Note, November 28, 2025: Since we first published this piece, the Worx 20V Cordless Drill has gone on sale and is ...

Variable speed motor controllers regulate the speed and/or torque of asynchronous motors. Depending on the application, there are controllers from a few hundred Watts up to several hundred Kilowatts.

Speed, torque, and horsepower are three inter-related parameters in motor control. The speed of a motor, measured in revolutions per minute (rpm), defines a motor's ability to spin at a rate per unit ...

Demand is growing for appliances such as washing machines, refrigerators, and air conditioners to help improve domestic energy efficiency. Moving from conventional fixed-speed motors to variable-speed ...

First note - I am a completely new to water cooling, this is the first build I've done. With GPU prices the way they are, I decided to try for an overclock vs a new GPU. Things are working well, and I ...

The way we control the speed of fan motors or pump motors has tremendously changed in the past two decades with the introduction of variable-frequency drives (VFDs), aka variable-frequency controllers ...