Timeline for Is current source also a voltage source?
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| Nov 1 at 20:49 | answer | added | no no | timeline score: 0 | |
| Sep 14, 2022 at 20:34 | answer | added | ChristophK | timeline score: 1 | |
| Jan 7, 2016 at 0:54 | answer | added | tcrosley | timeline score: 1 | |
| Jan 6, 2016 at 22:46 | answer | added | Lawrence | timeline score: -1 | |
| Jan 6, 2016 at 6:46 | comment | added | Russell McMahon♦ | As others have noted, the confusion comes mainly from inexact terminology. To produce current you MUST have voltage. To develop voltage across a load you must have current pass through it. Any practical power supply is both a current and voltage source. HOWEVER - for certain tasks we value having a (theoretically) constant voltage source or a (theoretically) constant current source. | With a CC source, as load varies voltage across the load MUST vary as V = IR = I x a constant. | With a CV source, as load varies current through the load must vary as I = V/R = V x a constant. | |
| Jan 1, 2016 at 12:15 | answer | added | Majenko | timeline score: 2 | |
| Jan 1, 2016 at 8:24 | answer | added | dmy | timeline score: 2 | |
| S Dec 31, 2015 at 15:08 | history | edited | Null♦ | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| S Dec 31, 2015 at 15:08 | history | suggested | user20088 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Dec 31, 2015 at 14:54 | comment | added | user20088 |
@BrianDrummond & EJP: I agree with you both, but @Brian: I'd say that saying "constant AC voltage source" is not wrong, as I assume it would be commonly understood as "AC voltage source with constant characteristics" (freq/P2P voltage/max power etc); "ideal" is a much more serious assumption here. Thus, I think that I could safely say e.g. that I've a constant, non-ideal AC voltage source - without any real risk of misunderstanding, as it's not the voltage that's constant here, but the source & its characteristics.
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| Dec 31, 2015 at 13:02 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackElectronix/status/682547348623486976 | ||
| Dec 31, 2015 at 11:30 | comment | added | user16324 | @EJP : "ideal" may be a better term than "constant", considering AC sources. | |
| Dec 31, 2015 at 11:07 | comment | added | user207421 | You're missing the word 'constant' in front of both. | |
| Dec 31, 2015 at 9:09 | answer | added | manav.tix | timeline score: 0 | |
| Dec 31, 2015 at 5:38 | answer | added | Peter Green | timeline score: 3 | |
| Dec 31, 2015 at 4:51 | answer | added | Ecnerwal | timeline score: 90 | |
| Dec 31, 2015 at 4:48 | answer | added | user57037 | timeline score: 2 | |
| Dec 31, 2015 at 4:43 | answer | added | Ryan Griggs | timeline score: 2 | |
| Dec 31, 2015 at 4:40 | history | asked | user3551094 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |