Recent content by flexj624

This is very interesting. I am wondering if all of the real world examples I have seen have been highly inductive, which is likely because of the nature of the circuits I have seen this on. Conversely, it is almost guaranteed for me to draw a significant arc when I de-energize capacitor banks by...

This makes a lot of sense and is exactly what I needed to put me on the right path. Thank you for your response!

Hello, I figured this belongs more in a physics thread than an electrical engineering thread, but please advise I am wrong. I am having a hard time finding the correlation between the amount of electric AC current flowing in a conductor and its affect on allowing an electric arc. Obviously the...

Ok, thank you to everybody that offered tips to help me solve this problem. I do not know why but no matter which way I looked at it I could not wrap my head around it. Now that stevendaryl basically had to hold my hand for me to FINALLY see it, I got it figured out. Thank you very much...

That's where I'm stuck though I have these equations, I can't relate them to solve for any variable.

100-(I1*12)-(I2*20)=0 100-(I1*12)-(2*R3)=0

Ok, so with that the three equations are: I1-I2-2=0 +100-VR1-VR2=0 +100-VR1-VR3=0 Is this correct so far?

Thank you for the reply, with this I get V=2*R3. When I take this and add it to anything else I still have two unknowns and I get stuck.

Thank you for the reply. I don't know why this one is so difficult for me. The only equations I can create are use multiple variables then when I try to combine them all, I go nowhere.

Thank you for the hint, I have not yet learned nodal analysis but I can easily read ahead and see if I can grasp it.

Hey guys, I have tried and tried to find a start to this problem with no success. My book may have the answer but unfortunately I must be not realizing it. So hopefully I just need a different perspective. Typically I would find the equivalent resistance of the circuit and then begin to...