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appliance  by jaus tail Tags: appliance, current, surplus,
switch Share this thread: jaus tail Mar28-14, 12:29 AM P: 10
Hello everyone,  I've read about green day when government says
to switch off appliances for an hour in evening.  But if
everyone switches off appliance, then where will all that
current go? We cannot stop generator so quickly.  It's like a
dam is giving water to three pipes, in full force. Suddenly two
pipes are removed, so wouldn't that one pipe carry all the water
and if that one pipe doesnt carry water, wouldn't dam explode
since there's more water than it can contain?  Who tells the
generator, to supply less current?  Also if I have a single load
which with a power supply. Load would be resistor(i hope i'm
right.) so if i increase resistance in series(which is like
adding load) then the total resistance increases, so current
should reduce.  I asked professors but they just said that green
day works as news papers say so. P