7 Comments

Bravo Mike! I loved your drop analogy to Ohms law and the cartoon. I had not seen it before! I also like the application of Occam’s razor to teaching complex subjects which can be paraphrased as “The simplest explanation is usually the best one."

Expand full comment

As usual, educational and entertaining….

Expand full comment

Here’s one way to show the difference between single phase and 3 phase power. Compare it to the different between a one cylinder and 3 cylinder (2 cycle) combustion engine.

Expand full comment
author

Not a bad idea, but I want a visual desktop demonstration. Since I already built a desktop 3-phase signal generator, if I had a tiny 3-phase electric motor I could show how it responds to a lost phase, reversed phase rotation, and frequency changes. https://rvelectricity.substack.com/p/should-i-teach-you-3-phase-power

Expand full comment
author

This could work for a demonstration https://youtu.be/P-eTLmJC2cQ?si=ipe0tY4ebHogXlJ5

Expand full comment

Hi Mike just thinking your approach is something like KISS! Usually works for me!

Thanks for the lesson

Snoopy

Expand full comment

I have always said and used this: You can't properly diagnose a problem in a system until you understand what it does with it's working.

Expand full comment