This weekend, a bunch of girls were getting ready at my friend's house for a party. You know how girls are getting ready. We have the washing machine, blowdryer, flat irons, the whole fiasco plugged in and running. Although technology sets up appliances to be in parallel circuits allowing each to be used at one time, when you have too many things turned on at once, the circuit will blowout. This happened this weekend because there was too much ampage being drawn through the circuit. My friend's mom had to flip the circuit breaker to fix the problem. Circuit breakers are switches that will open if the current is too hight; they can then be reset, but you have to unplug something. You can't have that much turned on again or the circuit will will blow out AGAIN.
Tuesday, March 1, 2011
Blog 10: Circuit Breakers
This weekend, a bunch of girls were getting ready at my friend's house for a party. You know how girls are getting ready. We have the washing machine, blowdryer, flat irons, the whole fiasco plugged in and running. Although technology sets up appliances to be in parallel circuits allowing each to be used at one time, when you have too many things turned on at once, the circuit will blowout. This happened this weekend because there was too much ampage being drawn through the circuit. My friend's mom had to flip the circuit breaker to fix the problem. Circuit breakers are switches that will open if the current is too hight; they can then be reset, but you have to unplug something. You can't have that much turned on again or the circuit will will blow out AGAIN.
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