Your explanation of mistake 5 was kinda ahaa moment for me -> several things clicked into place. Thank you for the revelation.

Your videos are really helpful! It's awesome that you take time out of your day to make them for us. Thanks!

Really helpful are: 9. Misunderstanding open circuits 10. Misapplying Ohm's law Thank you.

18:58 - I did a very short electronics course in 5th or 6th grade. Other than that, I am learning all this for the first time at age 42 so I appreciate these kinds of very basic tutorial type videos. Here's why this part is confusing. You say we use Ohm's Law here to calculate the voltage at that corner. You do Ohm's Law and the answer is V(or volts)=0. Then you do the quick verbal switcheroo and say that the "Voltage Drop" is 0 and therefor V(or volts) is actually 3 even though we just calculated it using Ohm's Law and Ohm's Law said it was 0. This is where the confusion lies. If current was.... lets say... 2 and resistance was... lets say.... 3, then you would say V(or volts)=6. You would not say the "Voltage Drop" is 6. So it seems the V in Ohm's Law sometimes means "Volts" and other times means "Voltage Drop". Perhaps it means "Voltage drop" only when you already know the voltage being supplied? Or only when IxR=0? Or when it's just 1 resistor in a circuit? I think I understand why the voltage would be 3 in this case, but the math looks goofy and the equation makes no sense... in this case. Or may be it's just the verbage of "Volts" or "Voltage Drop" makes no sense. This seems to be a very basic beginner issue, but I still haven't seen any explanation for it other than presenters just switching the verbage from "Volts" to "Voltage Drop" to explain the weird math and why V=0 is actually V=3.

Thank you for this very helpful video. I would like to suggest where confusion comes from at 18:50 open circuit voltage explanation. Voltage is DIFFERENCE in potential energy. You need two points to compare. Talking about a single point leaves the listener without a reference. In your explanation 0V is from negative to another point on negative side and 3 V is from a point of positive to another point on negative side.

Great video. Just getting back into circuit stuff and this helped a lot.

Thanks, your videos are awesome and easy to understand!

Very helpful and just a well done video. Thank you a lot.

very cool to see all these common mistakes :)

Hi Ben, great channel! Can you recommend a breadboard electronic kit to get started making common circuits? Thanks in advance! Subscribed!👍

Great video

Thank you

Thanks it helps me, my question is that all the components will measure same LED, Motor and so on. I tried to measure current and voltage LED it worked but motor worked same method with voltage two connection of the LED voltage as well as current. Was that accurate or is there any other method? Many thanks

In step 5, you appear to have a 6v power supply (4x1.5v batts) powering 6 LEDS with a combined min. Voltage requirement of 13.4v (2R@3.4v, 2Gr@6.4v and 2Y@3.8v)? How is this possible, since there should not be enough power available to light them all adequately? I must be missing something? I’m currently struggling with this same type of problem trying to light 8 various color LEDS using one or more 9v batteries 😢

cool :)

Great video!! But you made a mistake with the LEDs, It should be yellow, green, red from the top not red, yellow, green 😅 kzfaq.info/get/bejne/ZrGUlNZonNbFiWg.html

im sorry brother but its not 3 volts. your math was like a magicians slight of hand. not saying you did it on purpose or had any intent other than to teach but its not 3 volts. love you tho.