Electricidy is like water in a pipe analogy

[Barry White]

Anyone remember this when you first started learning about electricidy? It did help and was a reasonable analogy as electrons do flow. Even Kirchoff used this analogy when he made his circuit laws.

Now lets turn it around! Plumbing is like electricidy in a wire. SO IF YOU GET WET YOUR DEAD

What can we learn from this???

 

[Last plumber]

Anyone remember this when you first started learning about electricidy? It did help and was a reasonable analogy as electrons do flow. Even Kirchoff used this analogy when he made his circuit laws.

Now lets turn it around! Plumbing is like electricidy in a wire. SO IF YOU GET WET YOUR DEAD

What can we learn from this???

Don't eat a chip muffin with pea wet and scraps whilst you're wiring something ?

 

[Last plumber]

What do we learn mykey ?
and are we talking about AC plumbing or DC plumbing.
And when you were taught about elastic trickery, did they mention ping pong balls in a pipe ?

 

[Pete999]

What like this??

 

[Barry White]

It gets even more complicated as the "neutral" has to be a bigger bore.

did they mention ping pong balls in a pipe ?

They did

Thats the last thing you want in a pipe one had a tennis ball in my drain jetted it "clear" using a wander hose on a pressure washer but the ball rolled back (didnt know at the time) ended up digging up the drain.

 

[Last plumber]

What like this??

Yep, very similar to that when on DC and electronics !
AC, the analogy was ping pong balls !

I was given a book to read around the time ( which I still have ).
Electrical Engineers Reference Book, 11th Edition. ( older than me by the way).

If you look at the difference between that book and modern day text books, they are worlds apart. You needed a brain to read and understand it.
No offence to modern text books of course, they do make the subject a lot easier now.

However, I digress, getting back to mykey's lesson. What do we learn ?
( is this purified water in the cables ) ?

 

[Last plumber]

It gets even more complicated as the "neutral" has to be a bigger bore.



They did

Thats the last thing you want in a pipe one had a tennis ball in my drain jetted it "clear" using a wander hose on a pressure washer but the ball rolled back (didnt know at the time) ended up digging up the drain.

Funny.
I once had a ball of polystyrene in a gas pipe ( pilot tube).
Caused all kinds of probs. Couldn't work out why pilot lit and ran then just went out. Next time you lit it, same again. The polystyrene ball was floating up the pipe into pilot then once it did its job and blocked it, flame went out, gas flow stopped, ball rolled back down pipe.
Drove me mad trying to find answer to that one.

 

[Taylortwocities]

I have a transformer with a tap on it, but the electricity doesn't seem to drip out. Do I need a plumber?

 

[Pete999]

I have a transformer with a tap on it, but the electricity doesn't seem to drip out. Do I need a plumber?

No but keep it turned off otherwise the oil will run out.

 

[Last plumber]

I have a transformer with a tap on it, but the electricity doesn't seem to drip out. Do I need a plumber?

If that's a central tap, no, you don't need a plumber, you just need to wet your finger in mykeys water and push it in there.

 

[Barry White]

Just dont touch the "hot" taps