Current divider API

Splits a total current across two parallel branches and returns each branch current plus the parallel resistance. Answers 'How much current flows through each parallel resistor?', 'What is the current-divider output?'.

Price$0.02per request

MethodPOST

Route/v1/electrical/current-divider

StatusLive

MIME typeapplication/json

Rate limit120/minute

Cache0s public

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API URLhttps://x402.hexl.dev/v1/electrical/current-divider

Integration docs

Example request

{
  "totalCurrentA": 10,
  "r1": 100,
  "r2": 300
}

Example response

{
  "totalCurrentA": 10,
  "r1": 100,
  "r2": 300,
  "parallelResistanceOhm": 75,
  "i1A": 7.5,
  "i2A": 2.5,
  "formula": "I1 = I * R2/(R1+R2); I2 = I * R1/(R1+R2)"
}

Input schema

{
  "type": "object",
  "required": [
    "totalCurrentA",
    "r1",
    "r2"
  ],
  "properties": {
    "totalCurrentA": {
      "type": "number",
      "examples": [
        10
      ]
    },
    "r1": {
      "type": "number",
      "examples": [
        100
      ]
    },
    "r2": {
      "type": "number",
      "examples": [
        300
      ]
    }
  }
}

Output schema

{
  "type": "object",
  "additionalProperties": true
}