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What is an Amp, or what is Amperage
Posted by Mark Mortimer on 18 January 2012 09:55 PM
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| Amperage (A or I) is the rate of charge flow. Charges (electrons, in wires) move around or back and forth in a circuit at a certain rate, and the amp is the unit measurement. It’s also known as amperes, amps, intensity, electrical current, and coulombs per second. “Current” is not “stuff” that flows through wires, but the rate of charge flow. Saying “current flow” is redundant (it’s like saying “charge flow flow”)— current is the flow rate. 1 amp = 1 coulomb per second = 6.28 billion billion electrons per second | |
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