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palmboy5 wrote:if you would read a little further back

palmboy5 wrote:isnt AC like.. positive and negative switching back and for like 60 times a second or something? why would direction matter??

last time i checked, positive and negative were the "poles" and it wouldnt matter which way you plug it in.

Apparently you know nothing about electricity or polarity (did you look it up?). Or the questions you post. You wanted to know why the slots were different sizes and I told you. The same reason car batteries have different size posts for the positive and negative cable terminals. Polarity. Look it up.

but the polarities switch back and forth for AC!

car batteries are DC, why are you mentioning it? here:
"...As the name implies, the current alternates in direction as opposed to the direct current (DC) electricity that you get from batteries."

"Direct current flows continuously in one direction; alternating current changes direction 50 or 60 times per second..."

'Apparently you know nothing about electricity or polarity' so lemme help you: DC = Direct Current, and AC = Alternating Current.

each pin carries both poles (aka directions) at different times. so the wider slot can be both positive or negative at a given time, are you trying to tell me the timing has to be right too? i have to plug it in right when the wider one is what.. in positive?





*WHACK!!!*

Now answer my initial question, oh great adult.

Oh dear Lord, why do I even bother?

Let me confuse your simple mind some more. A car battery supplies DC voltage to the vehicle. A car's alternator generates AC voltage. But it somehow manages to recharge the battery, doesn't it? And there are systems on cars that don't function properly unless they get more voltage than the battery alone can provide, but they only run on DC voltage. How can that be???????

wow converters, i've never heard of those before -_- so your saying AC goes single direction too? i dont know why youre talking about cars now, why dont you go touch a pin for a house outlet plug while its still plugged in enough. you can feel it change. dont touch both though, but maybe you should ^^

"AC

(Alternating Current) The common form of electricity from power plant to home/office. Its direction is reversed 60 times per second in the U.S.; 50 times in Europe."

"alternating current

An electric current that rises to a maximum in one direction, falls back to zero and then rises to a maximum in the opposite direction and then repeats."
BOTH sides/pins can get w/e they want, positive or negative, 30 times a second. whats the point of not being able to flip the plug over then? both pins get the same shit.

and restin, yeah i got all the quotes from sites i googled up. cant find shit answering my question

Sorry. I've suddenly lost a lot of faith in google. There should be a justfuckingwikipediait.com.

palmboy5 wrote:

why is one wider.

So did you ever figure out why that's called a "polarized" plug, if it's not because of polarity?

no.

How dense can you be?

how would it matter if the poles switch?

Perhaps this will help: http://electronics.howstuffworks.com/question110.htm

... ohhh XD

What have you learned, Dorothy?

His head from his ass.



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umm.. i learned that both pins are not actually powered, just one. for a molex connector in a PC, it would be a black and a yellow wire. except the yellow wire's polarity switches 60 times a second.