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Electricity does not take the path of least resistance. It takes every path available, inversely proportional to that paths resistance.

When the voltage gets high enough, it will literally start ripping molecules apart in order to make its own path.

Also, nice meme, nerd.

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110 points

It takes every path available, and with high enough voltage, more paths become available

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48 points

That’s just a new game plus for electricity

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8 points

AC + high voltage must be nightmare mode

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77 points

High voltage be like: “Fuck you. I’m gonna make my own wire, with blackjack and hookers (and ionization)!”

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7 points

Never mind carbonizing the path it took along the PCB so future breakdown happen at much lower voltages 😑

PCBs: ✅ Fucked Your shit: ✅ Also fucked Your day: see above

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1 point

Relevant username

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1 point

😉 on purpose, in fact

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6 points

High frequency signals be like: wires? Where we are going we don’t need wires!

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Here is an alternative Piped link(s):

Electricity solving a maze

Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.

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8 points

Thank you for sharing this. I was enthralled from start to finish.

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33 points

You’ll have that when your voltage overcomes the resistance of the air

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Sometimes it happens even below the arc breakdown voltage via air… Air molecules are slightly less dense along the surface of a smooth flat surface due to molecular ‘bounce’, so electrons creep along the lower density of a surface.

Hence, creepage on a PCB.

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High frequency signals be like: conductors? Where we are going we don’t need conductors!

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19 points

What’s the center of this copper wire even for, anyway? I’m going around the edges.

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True that. I was amazed how many hundreds of amps I could dump into an aluminum foil antenna at high frequency.

Just aluminum foil around PVC is practically as good as solid aluminum pipe.

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