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The aim of the present paper is to develop methods that would be able to predict transient voltage distribution along the insulated-multiconductor windings of electric equipment fed by frequency converters. Several electromagnetic (EM) challenges are presented with this desire. First, the resistance (R) and self-/mutual inductances (L,M) frequency-dependent parameters are accurately computed using the enforced electric total current process based on the finite-element (FE) formulation of the strongly coupled time-harmonic magnetic field and total current density equations model including skin and proximity effects. Second, the coupling capacitances (C) are computed from the FE electrostatic analysis using the floating electric scalar potential process. Finally, a realistic high-frequency electric circuit of the distributed (R, L, M, C) EM parameter matrices is formed in order to predict the turn-to-ground and turn-to-turn voltage transients. The numerical results obtained from the proposed models implemented under the MATLAB code are successfully verified by the corresponding laboratory test measurements. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]