Calculate series and parallel resistor equivalence | Basic Electronics

[@aerocam2]

Found this explanation very helpful. Just starting to teach myself basic electronics so baby steps work well for me. Thank you for taking the time to shoot, edit, and publish for our benefit. 👍

[@CircuitBread]

Our pleasure, glad it was useful!

[@daz41262010]

great explanation :)

[@ranafaizan7314]

Can you plz tell me how to check that resistor are in series or in parrallel beacause there are some circuits in which resisters are not together,, so can you tell me a simple trick to khow, if someone gave me a circuit and asks me to tell if the resistors are in series or parrallel.

[@CircuitBread]

There are two things to remember when checking if resistors are in series or parallel. The first thing to remember is that it's extremely common that the resistors are *not* in series or parallel, but that their relationship is more complicated and the simple tools to find equivalent resistance won't actually work. However, the easiest way to figure out if they are in series or parallel and to see which one it is, is look at the two nodes, or the two ends of each resistor. If the resistors have one node in common and nothing else attached to that node, then they're in series. If the resistors have both nodes in common, even with something else connected to those nodes, then they're in parallel. If you look at the thumbnail for this video, you can see that the image on the left, the parallel configuration, has both ends (or both nodes) of both resistors connected to each other. On the right image, the series configuration, it only has one end (or one node) of each resistor connected together. Hopefully that makes sense!

[@tommothedog]

Im the thousandth viewer! 🥳

[@james77011]

this video is out of focus too!

[@CircuitBread]

The camera has a fairly shallow depth of field, Taylor focused on Josh, who seems to be completely in focus. But this does mean that the equipment is not as in focus. That is one reason (of many) we ended up changing the setup of how we shoot videos.