Given a breadboard, resistors, and jumping wires, how do you connect resistors in series or parallel?
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How to connect resistors in series and parallel in a breadboard?
Given a breadboard, resistors, and jumping wires, how do you connect resistors in series or parallel?
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A breadboard will have rows and columns. To connect a resistor in series, connect them end to end across one row so that the electrons MUST flow through both of them. To connect them in parallel, insert them "parallel" to each other so that electrons have "the choice" to flow through one or the other.
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How to connect resistors in series and parallel in a breadboard?
Given a breadboard, resistors, and jumping wires, how do you connect resistors in series or parallel?
For parallel you simply line up the resistors parallel to each other (along side) with one set of ends in one terminal strip and the other set in another, then use a single jumper wire from each strip to the rest of the circuit. This may result in bridging over and blocking several terminal strips, being wasteful, so you can be creative in standing the resisters more or less on end, but still with all of each set of ends together.
Series on breadboards is much more wasteful of breadboard strips in that you only put two wires in each strip. The first resistor is placed from the start of the series in the circuit and the other end is put in an empty strip. Then another hole in that strip gets one wire of the next resistor and the other wire of that resistor is plugged into either another empty strip or to the strip that connects to the circuit.
If you are connecting in series to make up a missing value, it may be easier to solder the series resistors end to end and just plug in the end leads into the strips that are part of the circuit.