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  • Date Created: 17 Oct 2014 11:33 PM Date Created
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Who wants to see electricity flow?

How can we convert voltage data and amps to a visual?

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    shahjee over 10 years ago

    A voltmeter will display the voltage electricity and an Ameter will show the flow of electricity. We can install data recorder. Is this what you wanted to ask?

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    bradnorwood over 10 years ago in reply to shahjee

    No, lets say, we pointed our smart phone camera at a set of low or high current wires and seen a visual of the flow of electricity, identified as a color of light if it's hot or not basically... Maybe could look like el wire but only when it was on so to speak...

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    shahjee over 10 years ago in reply to bradnorwood

    I believe there are devices like, speed guns and heat guns. You point them towards a moving car, you can record the speed, you point the gun towards a furnace, a heat gun can record the temperature.

     

    The electricity can be checked by  devices, like a clamp, you can record ampere, volt in any wire.

     

    A multi meter can check voltage, amp and resistance.

     

    In any cell phone, mobile phone, the flow of electricity is different at different points

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    vsluiter over 10 years ago in reply to bradnorwood

    The only way you can do that is by using very thin wires and very high currents. The wires will heat up, and then you can use a thermal camera to see where current is flowing. It might look like a far-fetched solution, but I've used it to find shorts on power lines in densely populated circuit boards.

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    vsluiter over 10 years ago in reply to bradnorwood

    The only way you can do that is by using very thin wires and very high currents. The wires will heat up, and then you can use a thermal camera to see where current is flowing. It might look like a far-fetched solution, but I've used it to find shorts on power lines in densely populated circuit boards.

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    bradnorwood over 10 years ago in reply to vsluiter

    Maybe there is a way to see the magnetic energy the wire creates from amperage? I'm just thinking outside the box a little. I think magnetic visual is the way we can see it but there has not been much development on viewing these waves.

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    vsluiter over 10 years ago in reply to bradnorwood

    There is some foil that discolors to see magnetic field lines (to inspect magnets), but the magnetic field lines along a wire probably won't discolor these sheets.

    This is the product: http://www.forcefieldmagnets.com/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=101

    Here are examples on permanent magnets: WONDERMAGNET.COM - NdFeB Magnets, Magnet Wire, Books, Weird Science, Needful Things

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    bradnorwood over 10 years ago in reply to vsluiter

    Yes I've seen the sheets, they are a neat way to see the magnetic field of magnets, but this system reminds me of carbon paper, hahaha, I still think there is a way to view the flow, and for t to work like an xray would...

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