
How much voltage/current is "dangerous"? - Electrical Engineering …
Likewise, if the current and voltage are below a certain level, a person can--given enough time--safely absorb an arbitrarily large amount of electrical energy. Further, if voltage is sufficiently low, the …
How to reduce DC voltage using resistors?
Jul 10, 2013 · How would one go about using a 12 V DC power source to power something which needs 4.5 V DC using resistors? Is there a way to determine how much adding a resistor would drop the …
Is it okay to use a power supply that provides slightly more voltage ...
Any device will only draw as much current as it needs, so long as its power source can supply it. However, the laptop adapter's voltage is a full volt above the specified 18 V; this will cause more …
What exactly does "common-mode" mean in the context of op-amps?
Most, or maybe all, topologies could end up outside of common mode voltage ranges at some specific time. What is important is to understand under what conditions will you be outside of the common …
How to calculate voltage drop over and power loss in wires
How do I calculate the voltage drop over wires given a supply voltage and a current? How do I anticipate on voltage drop so that the final load has the correct supply voltage? What will be the power
Why does reactive power affect voltage? - Electrical Engineering Stack ...
Why does reactive power influence the voltage? Suppose you have a (weak) power system with a large reactive load. If you suddenly disconnect the load, you would experience a peak in the voltage. Is
Three phase power supply - what is line to line voltage
Dec 4, 2013 · 2 Line to line voltage for a 3phase network (120deg separation) is sqrt (3)*phase voltage. So for a 230V 3ph network the line-line is 400V
Why does a resistor reduce voltage if V=IR? [duplicate]
According to Ohm's law, resistance varies directly with voltage You should read this the other way. Voltage varies directly with current. "R" is the constant of proportionality telling how much it varies. If …
voltage - Why does USB have Vcc=5V and high=3.3V? - Electrical ...
Sep 15, 2015 · The higher voltage allows compensation for voltage drop to the device. If USB was 3.3v then if you had a long cable and poor connectors with 0.5v of drop then the device will only run at …
Zener + MOSFET overvoltage protection - Electrical Engineering Stack ...
When voltage of the correct polarity is applied, the mosfet is on and M1 is more or less invisible to the circuit. When reverse-polarity voltage is applied, M1 is off and its body diode is also blocking current …