what’s the difference between current and voltage
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As already posted, the standard analogy is that current is the amount of flow and voltage is the “force” behind that flow.
Current is, if you were standing inside a wire, how many electrons would go past you every second. (An ampere is actually the number of *coulombs* of charge that go past you every second, but you can just as well think of it as electrons/second.)
Voltage is the average energy that those electrons have, so it tells you how difficult they’d be to hold back or stop.
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