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Basics: Sunday, March 31, 2019 11:54 AM
Basics: Sunday, March 31, 2019 11:54 AM
Now for some maths: Voltage = Current x Resistance (V = I x R) Power = Voltage x Current (P = V x I) An example - your
120V, 1.2kW heater. How much current is flowing? Put those numbers into the second equation. P = V x I 1,200 = 120 x I
I = 10 amps. Easy! What resistance is your heater? Put the numbers into the first equation. V = I x R 120 = 10 x R R = 12
ohms. Let's plug your heater into 240V instead! How much current would it draw? V = I x R 240 = I x 12 I = 20 amps.
Twice as much! How much power? P = V x I P = 240 x 20 P = 4,800 watts! That's four times as much! This may be a
surprise. Your heater will certainly blow up.
It is not volt or amps that kills u it is both kills u, if volt is less amp is more(upto human limit) it wont kill, or if vol t is more
amp is less also wont kill u. any inc or dec in one value is not dangerous. If both increases then it kills u
If we have 10v and 1000A human body resistance is 100Kohms, so 10/100K = 0.01mA which will not be sufficient to
electricute human