Difference between revisions of "Electrical Heater"

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The symbol for an electrical heater.

A heater is a component in a circuit which is heated when a current goes through it.

Heaters are usually long lengths of wire which a high resistance.

As a current passes through a wire electrons in the current collide with ions in the metal lattice causing them to vibrate. This increases the temperature of the wire.