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This type of circuit is called a series circuit. Each bulb becomes a part of the circuit and if one burns out or is removed the circuit is open and electricity no longer flows through it. If you draw a circle and mark an 'x' on its rim and call that the power source. The electricity flows out and through each light and back to the source. If you erase a part of the circle, to represent a blown bulb, the circuit is broken and the electricity does not flow.
The safest way to work with electricity in any place is to de-energize the circuit and test with a meter or hot stick. We prefer meters because hot sticks are very unreliable and sometimes to sensitive. Always test a meter or hot stick on a known live circuit before relying on it. Even if you are 100% positive the circuit is de-energize you should pretend its not and respect it. Electricity can kill you, regardless of the voltage or amps. Any voltage or amperage can kill! If your not a pro, call one!
I do not even know that it is the light switch that is popping your circuit breaker! It may be the switch or something else. The light switch controls a circuit. As electricity passes through that circuit it is heating up a contact or a weak place in a wire. At a certain point that hot place in a connector or in a wire allows the electricity to jump out of the circuit and not go through the light. When that happens, the circuit breaker pops. You can turn off the circuit breaker. Then you can look at the connectors on your light switch. If one of them looks burned, You have solved the problem. You replace the light switch. Next comes the more difficult task of looking at the connectors for your lamp. If they are not easy to get to, you call an electrician.
A continuous unbroken path of electrons is a closed circuit. If there is an opening, then it is an open circuit.
When a plug key is open , the circuit is incomplete and is call open circuit.. To be continued..
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The electrical path is termed an electrical circuit.
a closed circuit
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Closed circuit.
Conductors are what the electrons flow through, in a single electric current called a circuit. Hence circuit breakers on conductors.
This type of circuit is called a series circuit. Each bulb becomes a part of the circuit and if one burns out or is removed the circuit is open and electricity no longer flows through it. If you draw a circle and mark an 'x' on its rim and call that the power source. The electricity flows out and through each light and back to the source. If you erase a part of the circle, to represent a blown bulb, the circuit is broken and the electricity does not flow.
The safest way to work with electricity in any place is to de-energize the circuit and test with a meter or hot stick. We prefer meters because hot sticks are very unreliable and sometimes to sensitive. Always test a meter or hot stick on a known live circuit before relying on it. Even if you are 100% positive the circuit is de-energize you should pretend its not and respect it. Electricity can kill you, regardless of the voltage or amps. Any voltage or amperage can kill! If your not a pro, call one!
I do not even know that it is the light switch that is popping your circuit breaker! It may be the switch or something else. The light switch controls a circuit. As electricity passes through that circuit it is heating up a contact or a weak place in a wire. At a certain point that hot place in a connector or in a wire allows the electricity to jump out of the circuit and not go through the light. When that happens, the circuit breaker pops. You can turn off the circuit breaker. Then you can look at the connectors on your light switch. If one of them looks burned, You have solved the problem. You replace the light switch. Next comes the more difficult task of looking at the connectors for your lamp. If they are not easy to get to, you call an electrician.
an open circuit
Rupture or fault.
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