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Regulate Volumes Of Your Devices Easier With A Portable Voltage Divider

By Melissa Williams


When you are designing a piece of audio equipment, one of your major concerns is how you get to regulate or control its volume. In this case, a potentiometer which is a variable resistor may be used for specific adjustments. The device used in this situation helps you gain controls for any variable.

With an understanding of how circuitry and an equation works, you can make use of a device that could help regulate the voltage amount of the audio equipment or other electronics. A voltage divider is a passive type of line that produces an output value. This value is the lowered amount of initial voltage.

Using two resistors, this divider shall allow you to turn a large voltage into a smaller one provided that you also have the value of input voltage. Understand how this device works need you to be familiar with the Ohms law which states, the direct current flowing in a conductor is directly proportional to the potential difference between its ends.

This divider has two main parts namely the circuit and the equation. To make it work, first, you should secure a circuit by putting in two resistors together. The equation, on one hand, allows you to calculate the output after you have found the ratio of both resistors while considering the input volt as another variable.

Though you can buy your own device, creating a portable one can be a better choice as it helps you save. For this, you have to secure leads, resistors, a 9V battery, alligator clamps, voltmeter and its connectors. In addition, you have to ensure that you get at most the standard battery voltage which is 9.

Begin by connecting the leads with an alligator clamp. One should contain the red lead resistor with 10 Ohms and the other should contain the black one which has 20 ohms. Then after connecting these leads, use the free end to twist these two together.

Make sure that you have provided a solid twist for it by clamping an alligator clamp on it. Then look at the positive and negative terminals of the battery. When found, attach the red wire to the positive and the black wire to the negative. Then turn your meter on.

The positive voltage terminal of your circuit would be the connector which holds the twisted resistors together in place. On one hand, the negative terminal retains to be the negative source. Using the given equation, the new Volt count of your 9V battery goes down to 3V.

When doing this procedure, always see to it that you have unhooked an end of a divider or unplugged your battery to prevent it from draining. More so, be cautious when working with these types of wiring especially the ones which are still plugged into its outlet because it may result in electrocution. In this case, however, there is not much danger in a 9V energy source.




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