{"id":5653,"date":"2020-02-13T11:56:47","date_gmt":"2020-02-13T19:56:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/?p=5653"},"modified":"2020-02-13T11:56:48","modified_gmt":"2020-02-13T19:56:48","slug":"can-you-use-the-constant-current-sensor-for-electromagnet-experiments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/5653","title":{"rendered":"Can you use the Constant Current Sensor for electromagnet experiments?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A customer came up with an  interesting idea. She wanted to use our <a href=\"\/product\/constant-current-system\/\">Constant Current System<\/a> (<nobr>CCS-BTA<\/nobr>) to power electromagnets. For example the magnetic field of a coil or slinky labs in Physics with Vernier. This would have the advantage of giving you direct control of the current and not requiring a battery or other power supply. Looking at sample results in  the instructor section of PWV, it looks like we use currents up to at  least 2 amps.\u00a0 The Constant Current Sensor can only provide up to 0.6 amps. My guess is that you could get some data and it might be  worth trying, but I think you would need more turns of wire would help  you get more change in the field.\u00a0 In the instructions for lab 25 we  only use up to 10 turns of wire and up to 3A of current.\u00a0 If you used  say 30 or 40 turns of wire, it should work pretty well. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I tried it out using a simple nail and wire combination as specified in  the our physical science books and it just is not enough current to make  the electromagnet even pick up a paperclip.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A customer came up with an interesting idea. She wanted to use our to power electromagnets. For example the magnetic field of a coil or&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9585,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5653","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9585"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5653"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5653\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}