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Originally Posted by Willie Krash
I don't care which way it goes either Sparky.
The best way to deal with it is think plumping. Current is volume. A fire hydrant is a high current device. kids play in the water when they open them open. Voltage is push, the kids play as the volume is not being "pushed so much but raise the push/voltage it will knock the kids over and push them down the street. A squirt gun at it's pressure (voltage) and small volume (current) is harmless. Apply the squirt guns pressure to a fire hydrant and it can be lethal.
The battery is a filter or a condenser if you will. The generator is the pump to the battery, but like filling a tire you need higher pressure than what is in the tire. Like two tanks connected together, the tank with more water will feed the lower level.
This may seem an odd way to look at it but if you are unfamiliar with electricity you'd be surprised what you can do thinking of plumbing.
A bad connections is a clogged pipe. And open connection is I have water here in the pipe but not there so it's between the two points.
I hope I have not confused the issue.
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i too use plumbing lingo when im trying to explain something electrical to people. resistance is like lime buildup or corrosion in a pipe, a short is a water leak, an open is a pipe cap, valves are like switches, T's and 4 ways are like nodes or wirenuts.
there are the 2 different ways of looking at electricity and which way it flows: theres electron theory which is neg to pos due to an atom needing an electron.
then there's hole flow which is our usual standard of pos to negative because when an electron leaves one atom it leaves room for another free electron so there is a "hole" there for an electron to go. so if you look at it from the holes point of view thier going pos to neg haha.