

Low voltage: “Oh no, there is a tiny spot of corrosion on the contact surface, I think I need to lie down…”
High voltage: (rips line of coke) “I’M GONNA MAKE MY OWN WIRES WITH BLACKJACK AND HOOKERS!”
In fact, forget the blackjack!

Everything is wire if the voltage is high enough
iS iT Up tO cOde??? <— stupidass city council 🙄
Everything is a wire if the voltage is high enough.
Every machine is a smoke machine if you use it wrong enough.
I was interviewed for a position where lady handed me a pen and asked if it was a conductor.
I replied: "if the voltage is high enough, yea. She scoffed. Needless to say, I didn’t get the job.
Honestly I think you gave the experienced adult answer to what was a high school or even middle school science question.
that just sounds like a weird interview.
“you’re qualified for this position if, and only if, you can answer a useless question with only a rudimentary understanding of the subject and no critical thought”
if true, you dodged a bullet
-Sun Tzu
Oi! As an engineer I worked damn hard to trap that magic smoke in the machine only for you to let it out and try perfectly good components. Treat your machines with respect, they’re getting smarter by the day and they’re forgetting less and less!
“Danger! Danger! High voltage.
When we touch, when we kiss”
“Fire at the disco; fire at the, Taco Bell!”
“Fire at the disco; fire at the, Gates of Hell!”
😚🥰⚡️💀
modern metal band logos are really getting out of hand smh
This is so accurate. Try reading this without knowing what it is. It’s impossible

Answer
“Femtanyl” as it’s the artists name
What about this one?

Answer
LITERALLY NOBODY KNOWS 😭😭
First one isn’t even metal. But yes. Not doing that is why anyone even remembers Party Cannon.

Ah rayatu sannon.
I can’t see femtanyl in there even after you told me what to look for
There’s a Youtuber who has a series of videos trying to decypher metal band names.
It’s quite fun
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I don’t know too much about HV, but I thought that even the crazy path shown in the picture was still the path of least resistance. Is that wrong?
Dielectric breakdown, literally carving its own path of least resistance through the air.
You might not like it, but this is what peak conductivity looks like
It is still the path of least resistance but it created it itself. It ionizes the air creating a channel for it and then makes the leap, creating a conductive conduit of plasma/ions, as air currents move that around the path of least resistance can get progressively more nuts because there’s still a path through the ionized air.
From what I’ve seen, nothing will make a bunch of linemen hit the deck like the sound of high voltage switchgear opening when they weren’t expecting it.
“NNNNYYYYYYAAAAAZZZZZZZZZZTTTTT”
I think that still is actually from this video of a switch opening. Sound on, it’s real neat.
🥴 I like the way this tickles my brain
That’s fascinating!
I love how the 60Hz AC coursing through the plasma (?) can be heard at a safe distance. It really conveys just how much energy is in that arc.
With sufficient voltage, everything is a conductor.
With insufficient voltage, everything is an insulator.
Neither may be conducive to those roles, but everything has some conductivity and some resistance (super conductors being a possible exception).

Always fun stuff to work with, DI water or oil are great insulators, though one sucks to clean up if you spill it 😓
Just lather yourself up with that oil bb don’t let it go to waste
Diala works great for… Cooking… Steaks. I don’t know where to go with that because of how nope it is.
Hmm that sweet PCB taste
Also High Voltage. This human body will do just fine.
slaps head of a man This bad boy can fit so many volts!
“Gee, this squishy skin-sack full of water sure has a lot of tasty electrolytes. Might as well use this as a conductor!”
Now playing Electric Six - High Voltage
Edit: all credit due to Dasus@lemmy.world
Its funny because the arc looks a bit like Louise Belcher laughing maniacally
I thought the thumbnail was an AT-ST…









