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Damn. I was doing so good until the schematics started showing up, then it all went downhill.
When looking at the schematic, my assumption is that power always goes from left to right? I know it's a stupid question, but I can't even find a "starting point" to follow power flow when looking at the schematic.
Quoted from xsvtoys:(Edit) I went back to the beginning of this topic and now I can see how this can get confusing. Probably for the sake of keeping it simple, many of the example diagrams show the power coming from a battery. That battery is a DC source. But that's not the way an EM works. The source is AC. So the current doesn't flow in one direction from + to - like in a DC circuit when the switches close to complete the circuit. The current goes back and forth in both directions very rapidly. But everything still works the same as shown in the examples. Just don't get caught up in the plus and minus aspect of the battery. Again, in the end it is the application of the voltage that is more important than the current flow.
That's where I got lost. I was able to follow it from the battery in the diagrams, but once it went to the schematics, I got lost because there wasn't a way for me to follow the power flow.
So does the power come from both sides of the schematic? The OP indicates that both vertical lines on the schematics are bus bars, so does that mean that current can flow from either side?
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