Volts Amps Watts

[dondenter]

Voltage can be thought of as pressure to force electrons ( amps ) through a circuit.

Like the water in a hosepipe that is shut off at the end nozzle. When the tap is turned on at the nozzle the water flows out. This is the same as a flow of electrons pushed out by the pressure ( voltage).

The hose slows down the flow a bit and if very long slows down the flow a lot. It resists the flow of electrons ( current) because it has resistance. More pressure ( voltage) would increase the flow again.

[dreamknotter]

the..... butter heater?

[martinaee]

@dreamknotter I know, right? Who the fudge heats their butter IN the fridge? Holy bejezzus...

[LifesHardLessons]

@coldarc ok well...I didn't get that:-( sorry. a better question would have been in the1800's how did Alessandro Volta measure voltage? I doubt I'd there was a voltmeter? So ho did he measure the force of electrons coursing thru a wire, what method did he use to measure them???

[AxelTiger]

he reminds me of Bruce Willis for some reason...

[Madcow800]

@AxelTiger or maybe bruce willis reminds you of him.

[TheSportsbot]

@AxelTiger me too. its his confidence and lower face structure i believe.

[IntiqYana]

watt= volts X amps, that was useful , but i still didn´t quite understand , he totally failed to make it easy 

[coldarc]

@IntiqYana it is easy. you just don´t understand electricity. your a child to the most basic concepts of electricity.

there are more complex ways to describe what actually happend but those is even more giberish than what the guy in the video described. i can give you an example, ohm divided with ohm equals watts. a charge differential is volt and is a differential in ohm between elements in quantities and density.

[IntiqYana]

i didnt understand you fucking genius, learn to use the language so that everyone undestands you, why do i have to get into your own geeky world ?? i just wanna know how much juice is a watt, plus you didnt explain amperage properly

[PAM2167]

Very confusing:( sorry I still don't understand voltage! How it's measured?

[coldarc]

@PAM2167 if you have a bottle of tomato ketshup on a hight and squeeze the bottle and a small amount of ketshup fall on the floor, the distance it falls is voltage. if you squeeze a large amount of tomato ketshup at the same hight on the floor the amount that falls is ampere. if you combine the hight with the amount you get watts. volt is simply how much differential in electric resistance between two quantities of matter. its like ketshup and hight.

[MrSelman]

lmfao @ butter heater.

[navyseal100]

Very interesting.

[acmeschool]

Thanks! You've supplied the missing link to my understanding. Makes sense.

[hrford]

For the record. VA and Watts are different. With anything AC, Amps might not be flowing in phase with Volts.

VA = Volts * Amps (regardless of phase)

Watts = VA * Power Factor (1 is in phase)

So blaghr!! :P

[nicfromwashington]

Cool

[angiedavidgabe]

good vid, could have used background music.

[ClassicGarth]

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