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Alphaphoenix -- How does electricity find the path of least resistance?
TimFox:
In that abnormal case, you "blow" the smaller-power resistor long before you destroy the higher-power resistor as you increase the current through the parallel combination.
Somewhere above 1/2 A current, you reach the manufacturer's rating on the 1/4 W resistor.
With the small resistor open circuit, it takes about 0.7 A to reach the 5 W rating on the 10R resistor.
(In my practical experience, to actually get an open circuit, not just a lot of smoke, requires much higher current on such resistors.)
This is in the realm of fuse theory, which are not linear resistors.
Nothing like that happens in the case of the CopperweldTM copper-coated steel resistor.
Skin effect (at higher frequencies) is a different phenomenon.
aetherist:
--- Quote from: AVGresponding on May 12, 2023, 07:50:59 am ---
--- Quote from: aetherist on May 11, 2023, 10:38:57 pm ---On the contrary -- your answers/theory are a pseudo-scientific equation salad -- the real answers are based on real tests, which your silly theory fails.
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I posed no theory, I made an observation, which continues to hold true. The fact that you are (apparently) unable to tell the difference is not a surprise; it follows your pattern exactly.
--- Quote from: aetherist on May 11, 2023, 10:38:57 pm ---Its like this……….
Electron electricity is a model, it aint reality.
The electron equations are in effect models of models. They give good numbers in some cases, but fail in other ways.
My elekton elekticity ticks all boxes.
One strike & my elekton elekticity is out.
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Prove it.
Produce equations that explain the observations of reality.
Outline a repeatable experiment that tests these equations.
Until you do this, no-one will take you seriously, and for good reason. Your ideas are as aethereal as the name you use to describe them; they have no substance whatsoever.
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Allow me to have a second bite at this.
I am ok with u posing no theory – ie with u posing no hypothesis. So far so good.
But, then u insist that i prove my elekton elekticity. Here u are insisting that i do something that has never been done by anyone else in the history of science.
No theory can be proven.
But a theory can be falsified.
Like i said, one strike & my elekton elekticity is out.
All that u have to do is to raise one test or somesuch that my elekton elekticity can't pass --- or better still, fails.
U ask for an experiment that tests my elekton elekticity. Ok i have one. My elekton elekticity says that the speed of elekticity will be slower along a threaded rod, due to the extra distance up&down over the threads.
Simon:
--- Quote from: T3sl4co1l on May 12, 2023, 04:31:28 pm ---Hey Simon,
Can we just hurry up and close this? Maybe the Tesla thread too. https://www.eevblog.com/forum/projects/tesla-hairpin-circuit-curious-phenomenon/?topicseen
Tim
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agreed
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