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Originally Posted by sanddrag
I have pusehd a robot several times before (while the main breaker is turned off) and EVERYTHING lights up. But I was just wondering, where does the electricity go besides lighting up stuff and spinning fans? It can't go back to the battery because the breaker is off. Is it burned off as heat? Just curious.
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Yeah, I would imagine that most of the electricity you generate while pushing the robot is largely lost as heat, and lighting up the LED's and such.
Since the motors acting as generators, I assume the electrons are just "shoved" in a circle around the wiring, just like the robot is being shoved across the floor. The "friction" in this wiring loop is what creates the waste heat, I believe. As far as I understand it, electricity is a lot like water flowing through a pipe. The water/electricity doesn't really go anywhere, it just gets moved around.