Electrical load

An electrical load is an electrical device or an electrical device, an electrical system or an entire production plant, is converted into the electric energy into other forms of energy.

Businesses and households will also briefly referred to in the context of electricity supply as consumers or current customers, households, both in electrical engineering as well as in the legal sense consumers.

Electrical loads in the strict sense are only those who receive electric energy from the power grid.

In the technical sense, all the devices electrical devices that convert electrical energy into other forms of energy and realize the business directly or indirectly a benefit. The electric current is, however, not consumed - it flows back to the power generator. Consumes is rather the energy contained in the flow of current. Characteristic of electrical loads in addition to the current, an electrical voltage between its terminals. This is consistent in its counting direction according to the consumption arrow system with the current direction and direction of energy flow.

Divided according to the forms of energy produced electric consumers can be, among others:

• Light (lamps, bulbs, lights, lasers, etc.)
• Mechanical energy (electric motors, electrically driven machines, vibrating tables, electric vehicles, electric pumps, cranes, hand tools, etc.)
• Heat or infrared radiation ( heaters, soldering irons, toasters, electric welding equipment, storage heaters, electric radiant heaters, etc. )
• Chemical energy ( electrolysis systems, storage batteries when charging)
• Radio waves, microwaves ( radio transmitters, microwave, RADAR, etc.)
• Information gathering, information processing and communication technology ( televisions, computers, radios, telephones and fax machines, TV and digital cameras)
• X electrical, plasma, and ultraviolet sources