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Title text: A circle with an A in it means that the circuit has committed a sin and has been marked as punishment.


Transcript[A chart of various circuit symbols and their (mostly) fictitious meanings based off of their drawings, captioned:] Circuit Symbols

[Symbol for a switch, labelled:] Drawbridge

[Symbol for a capacitor, labelled:] Overpass

[Symbol for a connection to ground, labelled:] Pogo Stick

[Symbol for a resistor, labelled:] Earthquake

[Symbol for an inductor, labelled:] Sheep

[Symbol for a transformer, labelled:] Two Sheep in Love, Trapped on Opposite Sides of a Fence

[Symbol for a battery, labelled:] Battery

[Symbol for a battery, sorted, labelled:] Baertty

[Symbol for a battery, with far too many short lines, labelled:] Battttttttttttery

[Symbol for a photodiode, labelled:] Check Out This Really Cool Diode

[Symbol for an oscillator, labelled:] Wave Pool

[Symbol for a transistor, labelled:] Trolley Problem


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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

I'm getting the urge to listen to Metallica