How are the lights and appliances in your home wired? Draw a sketch of your hypothetical circuitry wiring in your home.
Explain.
2007-01-26 19:23:59 · 8 answers · asked by kafka 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Physics
<>Well, if you've ever turned a light off in your home, you pretty much know that the other lights don't go out (or at least they are not supposed to! :). I can't draw here, but it works like this- Power comes into your home from the meter and into a fuse or breaker panel. Each fuse or breaker represents a circuit within the home (usually a room or a special group). There may be several feeds off each breaker/fuse powering different outlets and fixtures. Each circuit consists of a hot, neutral and ground (safety) wire. Switches break only the hot wire, not the neutral wire. Each switch typically controls only one fixture, so turning one switch off or on only turns off or on one fixture (light, etc).
2007-01-26 19:28:23 · answer #1 · answered by druid 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You can't be charged for electricity that isn't being used, if there is no light bulb in the socket then no current or power is being used. It's possible that you're using more power through your heating unit. If you haven't messed with the thermostat, it could be possible that an outside parking light is wired into your breaker box. I have seen this done before in some older apartments and the tenant is paying for lighting up the parking lot at night. Hope this helps, good luck to you.
2016-05-24 04:38:25 · answer #2 · answered by Annette 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Even if they were in a series, the only ones that would go off are those that come after the one turned off in that series.
If you have five lights in a series, for example, and turn on all of them. Then come along and turn off number three the only ones that will go out will be number three, number four, and number five.
In a parallel circuit the main power to the circuit is divided into five seperate wires, for my example, and each connects independently to each light. Turning one off will not effect the power traveliing to the remaining.
2007-01-26 19:50:58 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
That would happen if they were wired in series. For a variety of reasons, they are not: they are wired in parallel. For one thing, it would be grossly inconvenient to have all lights go out when you turn one off. There are other technical issues which are even more important.
2007-01-26 19:44:14 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Only my bathroom lights above my mirror go out because they are on a series circuit. All my other lights are on a parallel circuit wired to one switch.
2007-01-26 19:36:08 · answer #5 · answered by firefly 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I used to have Christmas tree lights that worked like that but I've never heard of a house being wired that way.
2007-01-26 19:29:39 · answer #6 · answered by Lleh 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
all the appliances in ur house are connected in a parallel. so if u switch of on e appliance the remining appliances still work beause a parallel cicuit is like dividing the main circuit into smaller circuits for each individual appliance
|-----*-----( )-------------|
|----*------( )-------------|
|----*------( )------!!!----|
consider * as an appliance ( ) as a switch and !!! as the battery (and ignore all the gaps)
2007-01-26 19:38:05 · answer #7 · answered by absentmindednik 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
no .
they are in a parallel circuit not series. The switch won't affect the other lights.
2007-01-26 19:30:10 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋