your brain on day 3 of planing a magnetic loop antenna
from einfach_orangensaft@sh.itjust.works to science_memes@mander.xyz on 25 Mar 19:25
https://sh.itjust.works/post/35028271

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lmuel@sopuli.xyz on 25 Mar 19:50 next collapse

If it holds one human, how can we compensate for a better power factor?

Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works on 26 Mar 12:27 collapse

It hold more than one human if you’re sufficiently motivated

lmuel@sopuli.xyz on 26 Mar 18:03 collapse

It will also stop less than one (me) if sufficiently motivated

meyotch@slrpnk.net on 25 Mar 19:52 next collapse

IYKYK

It’s a very lonely life having the most frenetic genetic tendencies of a terrier, a ferret and a pack rat. But the rush I get when I stumble upon obscure technological treasures? It makes it all worthwhile.

HairyHarry@lemmy.world on 25 Mar 20:37 next collapse

The “There is a German word for this” of the week:

Personenvereinzelungsanlage

Thank me later.

SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml on 25 Mar 23:45 next collapse

So essentially a ‘queue slicer’?

Bruh. Why does German make so much sense

tacosanonymous@lemm.ee on 26 Mar 02:52 next collapse

Mostly, they cheat. They just describe a thing and take away the spaces.

lmuel@sopuli.xyz on 26 Mar 06:04 next collapse

Rindfleischettikettierungsüberwachungsaufgabenübertragungsgesetz

Mfg

SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml on 26 Mar 16:36 collapse

I think it’s been repealed btw. :'(

reinei@lemmy.world on 26 Mar 08:53 collapse

So words are no longer allowed to describe themselves? Hmm I might need to rethink a few languages…

(But sure you may consider it cheating, languages in general are weird.)

Johanno@feddit.org on 26 Mar 12:53 next collapse

We are allowed to invent new words in our language (allowed by grammar)

So you want to give a thing a word you just can take what it does and make it a world.

So this device is designed to make people crowds to a single stream of persons.

Personen(persons)vereinzelung(noun for creating a single of sth.)anlage(device/equipment/machine/facility)

Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de on 26 Mar 17:12 collapse

i mean you just did the same thing in english, queue slicer
the only difference is that in german it’s more normal to shove words together and call it one word, whereas english is for once easier to understand.

SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml on 27 Mar 01:51 collapse

Yeah. Also you Germans tend to give things very descriptive names (like this one) which I like. Nobody in England would think to call this a queue slicer, to us it’d be a turnstile.

MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml on 26 Mar 14:04 collapse

Personenvereinzelungsanlage

No, we don’t use that word. It’s “Drehkreuz” or whatever.

HairyHarry@lemmy.world on 26 Mar 15:07 next collapse

Apparently we DO use it: simons-voss.com/…/personenvereinzelungsanlage.htm…

MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml on 26 Mar 17:40 collapse

Ok, Beamtendeutsch.

Jumi@lemmy.world on 27 Mar 14:55 collapse

It’s definitely not “whatever”

InverseParallax@lemmy.world on 25 Mar 21:45 next collapse

… Planing or planning?

Madagaskar_sky@lemmy.world on 26 Mar 09:23 collapse

Hey guys, know jackshit about electronics. Wouldn’t this be an inductor instead?

meyotch@slrpnk.net on 26 Mar 12:17 next collapse

Such a capacitor is used to fine tune antenna performance, so it is an inherent part of that particular subsystem. Anyone who has disassembled an older radio has probably run across one of these rotary air gapped type before.

Inductors use a coil to store energy whereas capacitors use plates separated by a dielectric material, which is air in this case.

Madagaskar_sky@lemmy.world on 27 Mar 14:02 collapse

Ah, thank you for your explanation. Though in my comment I failed to mention that such a turn style would impede the flow of people going through it, like an inductor. Is my understanding correct?

meyotch@slrpnk.net on 28 Mar 11:35 collapse

Capacitors store energy up to their capacity, not being snarky with the tautological statement, that’s what they do. So yes they can slow or modulate electron flow. The simplest pulsing circuit you can make uses a capacitor.

My own personal projects these days include work with super-capacitors to make battery-free solar projects.

This stack exchange has a good discussion that relates here:

…stackexchange.com/…/how-to-pulse-an-led-for-a-se…

katriik@lemm.ee on 27 Mar 14:31 collapse

Interesting enough, this could also be a diode because it only allows one way passage.