Open circuit may refer to: *

Open-circuit scuba A scuba set, originally just scuba, is any breathing apparatus that is entirely carried by an underwater diver and provides the diver with breathing gas at the ambient pressure. ''Scuba'' is an anacronym for self-contained underwater breathing ...

, a type of SCUBA-diving equipment where the user breathes from the set and then exhales to the surroundings without recycling the exhaled air * Open-circuit test, a method used in electrical engineering to determine the impedance in the excitation branch of a real transformer *

Open-circuit voltage Open-circuit voltage (abbreviated as OCV or VOC) is the difference of electrical potential between two terminals of an electronic device when disconnected from any circuit. There is no external load connected. No external electric current f ...

, the difference of electrical potential between two terminals of a device when there is no external load connected *An

electrical circuit An electrical network is an interconnection of electrical components (e.g., batteries, resistors, inductors, capacitors, switches, transistors) or a model of such an interconnection, consisting of electrical elements (e.g., voltage source ...

is an "open circuit" if it lacks a complete path between the terminals of its power source

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