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When you add resistors in parallel, you actually get more current for a given voltage.
Adding a parallel resistor always means that…
- There is less equivalent resistance.
- There is more equivalent conduction.
10 volts across a 1,000 ohm resistor will pass 0.010 amps of current. That’s usually refereed to as 10 milliamps.
If you put 10V across two 1,000Ω resistors that are next to each other (not in series), then each of them will pass 10mA of current. Giving a total of 20mA of current.
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