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PokerPaul
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I don't know a general answer to this question, but I can tell you the difference between an electric guitar and an electronic piano, which may shed some light. On an electric guitar, a string vibrates at a specific frequency, just as on an acoustic guitar. The difference is that in the electric, this vibration is directly converted to an electrical signal at the same frequency, which is then converted into sound at the amp. In an electric piano, there is no string or anything else that vibrates at the proper frequency. Instead, you simply press a key, and a computer interprets that input, then decides what note to play. So maybe it's that electrics have moving parts (besides buttons and switches and such), and electronics are essentially computers? I'm not sure exactly.
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Electrics tend to be "simple" straight-forward devices.. wires, motors, switches, etc, generally manipulated by humans directly or indirectly. Electronics generally refers to complex, and generally smaller, devices that are unually "autonomous" - once turned on they do what they do and pass on the product of their effort to other things that do what *they* do. Your light in your room is electric, the radio, TV, computer, etc. is electronic. While electrics can be fairly complex, and some electronics can be pretty simple, if you can look at the components and see what they do and where what they do goes, it's probably electric, but if you look at electronics it's almost impossible to tell by looking what most of the components are doing exactly or contributing to the operation of the device.
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That question always got to me. I work at a company that has electrical devices and electronic devices. I'm an electronics technician, we also have electricians and the guys on the floor keep mixing us up. I always tell them that an easy way to tell the difference is to look at the wires. If a guy is working on a 12 gauge wire and it's the small one, the guy's an electrician. If the wire is considered big, the guy's an electronics tech. But really, steeley's answer is correct.
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About 400 bucks.
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I'm not sure there is a difference. Electronics refers to the flow of charge (moving electrons) through nonmetal conductors (mainly semiconductors), whereas electrical refers to the flow of charge through metal conductors.
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