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Kardier
modified 6 years ago

What is the current and voltage of the two conned batteries

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What is the current and voltage of the two conned batteries? How do I calculate the voltage and the current? I'm not sure if this kind of power supply setup is useful but I want to know how this works? Please help me if anybody has a simple answer to this. :)
published 6 years ago
crake
6 years ago
Ohms law is your best friend.
hurz
6 years ago
actually for networks to solve its more the Kirchhoff guy. Sorry, but what is "conned" batteries?
Kardier
6 years ago
*connected
Kardier
6 years ago
KVL - can't find a simple explanation. It says Σ IR = Σ E. Well, how do I know how much current goes from one battery and how much from another?
hurz
6 years ago
You ask about the voltages?
hurz
6 years ago
this network is so simple, there is not even a common mehtode needed to solve for currents. The voltages are given, that was already your choice.
Kardier
6 years ago
If the potential from left is higher than the battery's on the right side then the current will flow to the right + battery. Otherwise an amount of current will start flowing also from the right battery. What is this amount?
Kardier
6 years ago
@hurz, thank you for helping me with this. So, in the current setup the current flow through the 3V battery is almost zero. If I change the resistors the voltage drop will change and hence the current flow direction may change also. I'm not sure about the proportion of the current flowing through each battery.
hurz
6 years ago
First trick you have to know is, the equivalent resistance of a voltage source (battery), its a short! So observe for one battery and take the seconde away and instead short where it was. Now you can calculate the resistance seen from the voltage source. This is one methode and there are many many many more and you should learn at least one or two of them, but please understand again and again users asked to get teached on this level, thats just to much effort. So please look around for books, courses etc. If you have detailed question then come back, but dont expect to get a single person lesson on all of these network cruncher methodes, right?
Kardier
6 years ago
Thank you @hurz. I see what you mean, and I'm familiar with the basics. The problem comes when I want to try to connect multiple power sources in random points in the circuit. If you ask me to remove a power source from my circuit in order to simplify it then I already know how this works. Anyway, I suppose that this application is not a tool where you can easily explain or ask complex stuff. As you suggest I'll try to read some documentation.
hurz
6 years ago
i dont understand your problem
Kardier
6 years ago
@hurz, how do you explain the 2.33V in in the top junction? I suppose that it is easy for you, but I don't know what formulae to use there.
Kardier
6 years ago
Then, if I was to compute the current on left and right independently, then I would have 2mA on left battery and 1.5mA on the right battery. But because those two are connected in this way, I get 2.33mA within the middle resistor, which is neither sum or average of the two computed separately.
Kardier
6 years ago
@hurz, I have probably figured it out. I had to read your message a few times :D you have explained it very well, but I couldn't get it at the beginning!
Kardier
6 years ago
@hurz, thank you so much! I did what you said above and it is more clear to me now. Now I know one method to do it. Looking forward to find more about other methods. :D
hurz
6 years ago
You are welcome!

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