Have a question about diverting electricity two ways.?

Question

How can you divert an electrical power two ways? Say having one source and 90% of the power from that source diverted one way and the other 10% another way.

Answer 1

Power is "diverted" by the values of the loads.



It happens all the time in your house. If you have a 100 watt lamp and a 1000 watt heater, the lamp will get 10% of the power the 1000 watt heater will get.

Answer 2

Assuming that you want the same voltage amplitude to both the 90% load and the 10% load. If so that means you need to limit the current in the 10% load to 1/10 that of the total current when the circuit is fully loaded. This would of course leave 90% of the available current available for the 90% load.



Now assuming that you know what the total power capabilities of the source voltage is in watts. Divide this power in watts by the source voltage to get the total full load current capabilities in amps. Now select a circuit breaker that opens when the current exceeds 9/10 of the full load current and install it in series with the source voltage and the 90% load circuit. Now select a circuit breaker that opens when the current exceeds 1/10 of the full load current and install it in series with the source voltage and the 10% load circuit.



This will not allow for voltage surges but it will insure that neither of the two loads can use more than it`s allocated amount of the total power that is available from the source voltage. It will also insure that the combined current of the two loads does not exceed the total current capabilities of the source voltage.

Answer 3

I don't think your question is asking to do something sensible. Devices control how much electrical power they get based on their needs. For example, a computer is either on or it's off. If it's off, it takes basically no power. If it's on, it takes what it needs, say 100 watts.



If you have two computers as your two loads, and they each need 100 watts to operate, what sense does it make to ask how to send 90% of the power one way and 10% the other?



There may be a more specific context in which your question makes sense, but to answer it, I'd have to guess what that context was. Try asking a more specific question with much more detail about what you're actually trying to do.



If you're talking about typical household electricity, and you want to allow one load to take 100 amps and the other to take 10 amps, you could use circuit breakers. This will allow one load to take *up* *to* 100 amps and the other to take *up* *to* 10 amps. If any load exceeds its rating, it will be shut off until the circuit breaker is reset.



But this won't affect the actual amount of power going to each load. Each load will take what it needs while it's on.

Answer 4

I think you can do something like a parallel circut. Just have the wire branch into two, then put different resistors on both. Put the load on the branched wire then have them connect again. I'm not sure that will do it, I've never done that before, but its worth a try.

Answer 5

Your loads determine how the power will be distributed. If you can change the characterisitics on your loads then you can "divert" power.

Answer 6

It doesn't work that way. We suggest you take a course in basic electricity and electrical circuits.