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[–] [email protected] 9 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Full bridge rectifier¿

Thick eye brows intensifies!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

First thing that went through my mind lol

[–] [email protected] 1 points 13 hours ago

Yes, with Mehdi's enthusiastic pronounciation, +1

[–] [email protected] 7 points 15 hours ago

the diagram is an AC to DC converter.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago)
[–] [email protected] 10 points 20 hours ago

RF engineer here, living the life of magic in the air and space!

[–] [email protected] 12 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago) (1 children)

Yeah but it's too realistic, I want something convenient! Let me read one book and gain the power to create floating ice! Not read like 5 giant books and stufy for years so that I can create a microwave 😔

No shade to microwaves, one of my favorite magic items

[–] [email protected] 1 points 15 hours ago

Hello every wizard protagonist in every fantasy YA novel ever.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 day ago (4 children)

That diagram is just heat with extra steps.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I mean, yea. The people designing the AC to DC power supplies often don't care what you use them for, why would they bother putting schematics for a real load on their diagram?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

That's what someone who doesn't understand magic would say.

Follow the spell incorrectly and that is indeed all you would get.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

That's not a resistor it's actually a BIG LOAD. The diagram would better show it as a reactive load (usually just a rectangle) since most real loads are reactive. Get it?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

That's what I was thinking. Depending on the supply that'll start a fire.

[–] vithigar 15 points 1 day ago

It's a basic AC rectifier, the resistor represents an arbitrary DC load. You use similar circuits all the time, though generally with additional failsafes and some mechanism of smoothing out the rectified current.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

Gotta love the progression in this.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Paraphrasing Arthur C. Clarke: Any technology is indistinguishable from magic, to the sufficiently ignorant.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Clarke's Maxim: Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

Corollary / Contrapositive: Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 22 hours ago

My version seems like another good corollary.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Only thing dumber than a mechanical engineer is an electrical engineer trying to design a housing.

You want to understand the deep magic, talk to electricians and technicians.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 21 hours ago (5 children)

There's a lot of machinists who think they are hot shit, so fitting username.

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[–] [email protected] 182 points 2 days ago (7 children)

looks at schematic

FULL BRIDGE RECTIFIAH!!

eyebrow dance

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[–] [email protected] 43 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

Squint at this (from this wiki page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_demons_in_the_Ars_Goetia) and these might be either ancient sigils or electronic symbols*.

EDIT: Fixed a typo

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Okay, this is dying for me to learn Godot and make a game

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 day ago (5 children)

This one's a bit interestingly shaped...

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

Hang on. I've seen that tattoo!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

If that is a dick, it looks like it has some very serious STDs.

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[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 day ago (2 children)

We always joked it was black magic but its literally on the name.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

An actual textbook cover. I mean... An ancient grimoire of the dark arts

Edit: I almost forgot about the sequel

[–] [email protected] 3 points 20 hours ago

The bible of my people

[–] [email protected] 2 points 19 hours ago

Omg I cant believe this is real.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I always thought that would be a good style for a dart board. Score would be -dB(return loss)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 19 hours ago

Genius concept. just need a catchy name.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 day ago

Um akshually, that's a rectification circle.

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