5&under=sorcery
- Joined Jul 4, 2010
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His question is hypothetical. TNK is exactly correct. When you add resistances you are actually adding separate current flow pathways, or conductors. You are thinking of resistances in series, which pretty much doesn't happen in alternating current building systems because of the way they are wired. Of course each load has some resistance, but in an AC building circuits they are in parallel, not series. Therefore, although you are adding resistances, you can also think of each resistance as a conductor that has some resistance. The fact that it has SOME resistance doesn't mean current won't flow, right? It is still a conductor, and in each of them SOME current will flow. So if you take the SOME CURRENT in each resistance and take that times however many resistances total you have, the result is going to be MORE current flow, not less as in resistances in series. Resistances in parallel, as in AC building systems, calc out as LESSENING total resistance, therefore increasing current.
