For example, if i have a battery with 10V of power, and then i connect a wire to the battery it will have 10A of current in it.
If i connect 2 wires, why current doesn’t split between the two wires so that i have 5A in each one?
I have no knowledge in this area, the only logical conclusion i can come to with the little information i have is that both wires will have 10A of current because both will “work at full potential”, but then, the battery will run out of power at double the speed compared to having only 1 wire connected.
Is my guess correct or the solution is another one?
Thanks in advance.
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If you overload the battery and it can’t provide more current then it will absolutely split the current.
Usually we do things at relatively low currents, where the battery is able to provide more current than we need, so we don’t encounter this scenario. Batteries get hot when you use too much current so it’s not good.
It’s possible to make a constant current power supply circuit (instead of the usual constant voltage), and it works freakily backwards: to power several things you wire them in series, because if you wire them in parallel then the current splits when you don’t want it to, and to turn something off you short-circuit it instead of disconnecting it.
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