Hi thanks for watching in this video ty branaman is back once again talking about watts law and he demonstrates it in a really great and simple way, not focused so much on the math, much more focus on the relationships between volts and amps. So big thanks to tai, please subscribe to his channel the link to it is down in the description for this video. So here we go ty branaman talking about a simple way to think about watts law. So, let's do this little test here and let's check how many watts we're going to have with this heater right here right, so we're going to do.

Is we're going to move this out the way - and this does you might know what this device is good? That's one it's one name: anybody know the nerdy name of this. It is an electronic conversion device, it converts electrical energy watts and the heat energy btus, it's just a conversion device. So what we're going to do is we're going to plug this into my little adapter. Here and what's cool about this adapter is, it gives us a place to test voltage and it gives us a place to test amperage.

If it's a very low amount of amperage, we could wrap it around 10 times to give us a stronger magnetic field. So we can still read it. We're just going to be using this one we're going to plug this in, and we're going to turn this on. What we can do is we can measure how many watts it has amperage doesn't tell us how much electricity we're using - and this is important amperage - does not tell us how much electricity we're using it's part of the equation.

You'll see a lot of people argue that oh, it's pulling more amps, it's using electricity, but what's the voltage both of them together is wattage. So if i check the amperage set it for amps all right, so we have 8.46 amps of electricity. There's a speed of electron flow, the current the amperage, the intensity is 8.46. Does that tell me the power? No, what else do i need the voltage voltage? So what we're going to do is turn it to john travolta.

Here the voltage electrical pressure potential difference electromotive force push. Let's take these fancy. Oh goodness, gracious we're gon na need some other uh. We actually need leads.

We need leads. We need points so here. This makes me disappointed. Wow, i'm catching on slow to these jokes.

Now i've been now i've been reappointed. All right, so we're going to do is we've already checked the amperage. Now we're going to check the voltage now you have to find it with those little leads: yeah they're a little small all right, so we had 114 volts 140 volts. We have a calculator.

Yes, my teacher told me you're, not gon na, have a calculator with you. Every day - and she was wrong because i have attacked with me every day, so 114.2 volts and our amperage is nice. Let's call it eight points, just let's round it to eight that'll, be that'll, be good. It's bouncing around there right.

So what how many watts do? We have 913.6 913 watts of energy of electrical energy 913 watts. Does that make sense 913 watts so because we have a whole lot of watts on here. Do you think the resistance is going to be high or low? Let's find out somebody let's, we have 13.8 13.8 ohms of resistance right. So let's try something else.

This right here. You guys know what this is. My dad is always talking about uh wanting to play golf. So i i got this nine iron here right and so uh he didn't.

He didn't. He didn't think that was funny at all. So let's check the resistance of this first, let's check the resistance here. How many ohms do i have? Oh, we got about 13 ohms of resistance, so we're going to be close to the same.

So let's check the amperage, we'll do the amps, so our amperage is showing 8.8 amps. What else do we need to find the power voltage? So let's turn it to volts. I've done this thanks, your turn, don't be scared. It probably won't shock.

You there's nothing hot around either i'm right here, no, my bad 113, 113, sometimes 113, 994.4, 900, and so, which one put up more heat this one. Yes, so this is nothing more than electrical conversion device. It converts electrical energy. What's in the heat energy b2 we're gon na do b2 here in a little bit, but it is electrical conversion device.

They are converting electrical energy into heat energy and we can calculate it now. The next thing is when we check voltage, if i disconnect my load here and i check my voltage static, we'll do the same. One. Do the same point here notice.

What our voltage is here, did our voltage go up or down it went up. What does that mean? What did you just? Do i just removed the load? I removed the load. Yes, so you don't have you have less resistance now you have more, but i disconnected my resistance all together. Let's i don't like comparing electricity to water too often because it gets complicated when we talk about switches, but let's say that you're taking a shower and then somebody else opens the water outside the water faucets outside and somebody starts flushing the commodes.

What happens to your water pressure? It goes up, it builds up. What's a commode, it goes down toilet, oh okay, it goes down so it goes down. So as i'm having a flow of power, a lot of times we'll see the voltage will drop, especially if the wire size isn't big enough to handle that current. This is very important when you have air conditioning.

If you have a customer, that's never had air conditioning before and you add air conditioning the wires from the telephone pole from the pole to the panel may not be big enough. So now they have this ac unit, and this ac unit is kicking on and it's using all this energy there will be a voltage drop to the rest of the house. That voltage drop could cause a brand out condition and could cause other electronic components to start failing. When that unit shuts off, there could be a slight little spike as well.

So this is important. The wire size coming to the house, the wire size in the house, is very important, not just for safety issues, but to make sure that we have the correct voltage to our loads. Another important thing is: when that voltage changed. We want to make sure we're checking watts or voltage.

We want to check it while it's running, for example, i've had a customer before and they had six different people come out and they couldn't find out why they were burning out going through compressors. What i found out, we checked the voltage while the system started up, it had 240 volts, that was 235 anyways. The system started up and it dropped down to 100 and i think it's 180 when it started up and then it climbed back up again. We found out there was an issue with the wire sizing being too low when that system first started up.

I was having brown out conditions having a hard time getting enough voltage to start so when you're checking watts it's important to check it, while it's under loads not just simply checking my volt standard but checking my volts while my load is hooked up because now right Here you can see it happen. You can see the voltage climb back up, big thanks to ty reminder. Go subscribe to his channel. You won't be disappointed.

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