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1. Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Wednesday, 25-Dec-2024 07:11:25 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

   @connections I guess technically everything is a resistor, unless you've got some superconductors in there

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Thursday, 26-Dec-2024 13:22:03 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     • Cavyherd
     • smellsofbikes

     @smellsofbikes @cavyherd @connections as a misophonic who always has a problem with polarity, the idea of blowing dozens at once scares the fuck out of me!

   • Cavyherd (cavyherd@wandering.shop)'s status on Thursday, 26-Dec-2024 13:22:04 JST Cavyherd

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     @foone @connections

     Capacitors are especially exciting if you put them in backwards

     (Thinking back the cloud of smoke & paper debris expanding around Fred's workstation when he made that mistake, back in the day. Rest of class: "Okay! I'm awake now!")

     (Later coworker enjoyed the amusements of putting them across the leads of an arch welder. With suitable shielding, of course.)

   • smellsofbikes (smellsofbikes@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 26-Dec-2024 13:22:04 JST smellsofbikes

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     • Cavyherd

     @cavyherd @foone @connections We got a reverse loaded reel of tantalum caps from some dubious vendor, shoved it in the pick and place, and didn't realize the problem until the assembly line had filled all the way to final test, and dozens of caps blew at once. Even then it took three boards before we got everything shut down. Those boards were $10K each so we tried to rework them, but we always missed a few. That was a month of surprises.