Saturday, 24 January 2015

parallel - Different and opposing voltage sources?


schematic


simulate this circuit – Schematic created using CircuitLab


The diagram above, the voltage sources are equal and wired parallel, they would increase the current(2x) flow to the load(R), but what about this case:


schematic


simulate this circuit


Are the two voltage sources in series now?




Answer



You have drawn a circuit that expresses a logical contradiction, just as much as if you wrote down the mathematical equation


$$5 = -5$$


One way you could resolve this is not drawing contradictory circuits.


If you want to know what happens when you connect two physical power supplies in anti-parallel, then you must provide a more complete model of the power supplies. For example, if you include non-zero internal resistance in at least one of the supplies, you will not have a contradiction, just a very large current produced through the two supplies.


No comments:

Post a Comment

arduino - Can I use TI's cc2541 BLE as micro controller to perform operations/ processing instead of ATmega328P AU to save cost?

I am using arduino pro mini (which contains Atmega328p AU ) along with cc2541(HM-10) to process and transfer data over BLE to smartphone. I...