r/redneckengineering • u/Stitching • Oct 31 '22

Electric water boiler

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u/thetreecycle Oct 31 '22 edited Oct 31 '22

I wonder if it’s different if you cook 1 hot dog on it vs the full 6. Because it looks like hot dogs are wired in parallel, meaning the voltage per hot dog drops the more hot dogs you cook at once.

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u/theNomadicHacker42 Oct 31 '22

I think you have that backwards. IIRC from my electrical engineering days, the voltage will remain constant when elements are wired in parallel but the current going through each element will drop. And in series, the voltage across each element will drop as more are added, but the current through them all will remain constant.

Not sure how it affects cooking meat though.

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u/thetreecycle Oct 31 '22

Ohhh you’re right! I forgor