current divider

[Patrick Chung]

Interesting thing about current divider is that current through resistor R1 is directly proportional to resistor R2 value, while current through resistor R2 is directly proportional to resistor R1 value. It might be confusing at the first glance, but it is quite logical. If neighboring resistor is large, more current will flow through out given resistor and vice versa.

Read more.

http://www.cirvirlab.com/index.php/electric/current-divider-formula.html

and also calculate:

http://www.cirvirlab.com/index.php/calculators/current-divider-calculator.html

 

[John Larkin]

On Thu, 29 Oct 2015 01:15:19 -0700 (PDT), Patrick Chung
<pchung705@gmail.com> wrote:

>Interesting thing about current divider is that current through resistor R1 is directly proportional to resistor R2 value, while current through resistor R2 is directly proportional to resistor R1 value. It might be confusing at the first glance, but it is quite logical. If neighboring resistor is large, more current will flow through out given resistor and vice versa.

That's wrong.