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title: "Understand the difference between DC and AC"
description: "\\ The fifth episode of AddOhms tackled the difference between AC and DC. One of the things I wanted to stress in this tutorial is that even though the acronyms stand for…"
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# Understand the difference between DC and AC


[YouTube video vN9aR2wKv0U](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vN9aR2wKv0U)


The fifth episode of AddOhms tackled the difference between AC and DC.  One of the things I wanted to stress in this tutorial is that even though the acronyms stand for "current", they get used to describe voltages as well.  Which, after a video on the difference between voltage and current, seemed like something that needed to be stated.

No behind the scenes for this one, just the finished video.