Diamondback Battery & Electronics

Hey everyone! Sorry it took so long to get this posted; we have been keeping very busy here at Diamondback!

We have now been in business for one year and have had more than 6000 orders so far. Thank you so much for your help and support!

I know that I put in the last blog that I was going to have a few sessions about basic electronics, and I am going to do that, but I do want to let everyone know that we are now also featured on Amazon. Just like everything else these things start off slow but we have already seen some success.

Ok, now for the quick electronics lesson. The first thing everyone needs to know is a basic understanding of what electricity is.

Most people know that electricity is a flow of electrons. These electrons can be transmitted through and conductor. A conductor can be almost anything from a copper wire to the human body.

What most people don’t understand are the electrical terms. Let’s just learn just a few of the major ones and we will move on to more next week. Voltage, current (or Amperage) and resistance will be the three we look at. I find these terms to be easier to understand when I can explain as water as opposed to electricity.

Voltage is like the water pressure in a pipe. When this pressure is correct then it is very useful, when incorrect it can be very destructive. Lightning is a great example of a very high voltage that can cause damage, but not the only one. In different parts of the world household voltages are different ranging from about 100V to about 250V. When a device designed to work with 110V is plugged into an outlet rated at 240V it normally fizzles and pops and becomes generally unusable except as a paperweight.

Current is simply the amount of electricity flowing through a conductor, just like the amount of water flowing through a pipe. Most devices list their maximum current output this can be listed in Amperes or milli-Amperes or just Amps. Sometimes these numbers can also be listed as Watts, that is voltage times the current. The current listing on a device can be thought of more like the size of a water pipe, the larger the pipe the more water can flow through the pipe.

Resistance is like a faucet. Low resistance is like an open faucet, high resistance is a closed faucet. Resistance controls the flow of current allowed to flow through a device.

So, getting back to the water analogy if you have a device that has a high voltage and it rated with a large current (such as a clothes dryer) could be thought of a fire hose. Lightning (high voltage and low current) could be thought of a super high pressure water gun. A small 1.5v battery could be thought of as a small hose with a slow drip.

The standard equation for voltage, current and resistance is V=IR where V is voltage, I is current and R is resistance. This is known as ohm’s law. If you know any two of the variables you can easily find the third by manipulating the equation. For example R=V/I or I=V/R .

Next week we can talk a little bit about batteries and AC adapters and how those things work.
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