Do we have humor threads on diy? On /g/ there's one eve

Lol. Mid video i was thinking, "why is the red wire connected to the negative end of the capacitor?" Still made me laugh.

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pic from one guy who wanted to build a shack in the woods

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>>687255
response

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>>687266

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>>687274
whoops, wrong one

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thats all i have

>>687263
OSHA requirement
>must be grounded

>>687262

Oh, that cant possibly turn out well.

>>687255
what the fuck is that thing coming out the side?

>>687089
If you look really close you can see the cap bulge before it blows up

>>687299
he wanted to to heat his house, so i think it could be an oven

best threasd ever!!!!!!!!

>>687262
This isn't actually humor... several years ago a guy did a thing where he re-built a older device, and it had blown fluid filled caps. To keep the cosmetics, he hollowed out the old caps and soldered in new caps. I seem to remember him having a viable reason for the different values, too...some other part he had to replace.

>>687262
this is actually a common thing for capacitors and batteries from china. generally people buying two or so capacitors at a time are just replacing the ones in their car stereos that have blown anyway with sooped up capacitor kits so it wont matter.

>>687457

That's actually a good idea.

>>687524
have you ever heard of something called inductance?

>>687254
My iron smells like tuna and there's smoke comming out of the handle for no real reason. But it works so fuck it.

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>>687533
>have you ever heard of something called inductance?
Yes. What's your point?

>>687533
Two wires carrying current to item plugged in.
Current flows opposite directions in wires wound same direction.
Inductance wire one cancels inductance wire two.
No inductance observed.

>>687566
>Inductance wire one cancels inductance wire two.

And there in lies the problem. Inductors fighting one another generate heat. Lots of them in a roll generating heat together. Rarely an issue unless you are pushing the cord to the limit with a 2.4kw heater or similar. Throw in some resistance and a rug for some added excitement.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WSpTlAFRhYM

>>687573
>Rarely an issue
this

>>687587
Jesus.
No.

>>687588
Fuck I remember that thread.

>>687588
I remember that thread.
Good times.

>>687268

love this one

>>687587
i hope that's just a field repair

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can anyone remember why he did this?

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>paralell

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>>687533

I retract myself.

>>687685
I think he said that it was already like that, he just put in new panels.

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>>687699

>>687694
what is funny about this exactly?

>>687702
the small wires going from the thicker ones, i have no idea im not into electrics

>>687703

The copper plates seem to be huge ass fuses, yet the electricity that flows though them seems to be coming from tiny wires.

>>687702
>>687706
Also: they're color coded, but someone fucked up and swapped white and brown.

>>687702
Rails like that are normally used for insane amount of amperes. One system i worked on had rails lake that carrying 3600A.

Connecting them to those thin wires (which i assume can handle the load) is the electric equivalent of using a tactical nuke to swat a fly.

>>687702
looking at it a little closer, i understand what's so "funny" about it, the rubber plate would be covering the grid supply connections
the wires connected to it are switched, and are a way that they are stealing power

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>>687695
mfw I made this screencap and someone used it

>>687271
wat

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>>686733

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this would be more of a /g/ thing, but anyway

>>687855
>windows application
>high level programming language
>low level programming language
>binary
>circuit diagrams
>material properties
>molecular structure

So what's the joke? You're programming from the atoms up?

>>687689
>sand bottle until smooth

I lost it

>>687855
Is this something some kid threw together to be like "look imma hackor"

>>687860
You've obviously never seen Visual Component Codesign.

>>687855
>this would be more of a /g/ thing
yes

>>687646
no homo

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>>687897
>osb

>>687695
my sides

>>687697

someone get this man a square and a level ASAP

>>687646
He never delivered...

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>>687948

>>687591
It'll get you home.

>>687646
jesus, that was a while ago. i hope he got all the crab meat he needed

>>687686
I do this all the time for prototyping. Works great. I don't see a problem.

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>>687950
Used to work next to a fish and chip shop. They did similar but with a mains powered drill.

>Comes in with drill half covered in batter
>Can you fix him?
>He make sparks.

Take a look at it. Found it was out of brushes (would you like carbon dust with that?)
Commutator segments totally smashed.
Pic related

>>687951
A much better way to do that is to place the food on a heat safe surface and place the iron on top. That way the grease wont get into the steam holes as much and it will be easier to clean.

>>687979
power over ethernet?

>>687985

>this kills the computer

>>687875
Obviously not. Are there pretty 3d representations of E=MC^2 floating around and changing colors that I can plug into this? I need to write a virus to hack the Gibson.

>>687985
it's an ISP booster
you'll download shit like no other with it

>>687701
I thought my barn was a little un even but this

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>>687892

>>687682
I don't see anything wrong with this... I was doing it wrong all the time, wasn't i?

>>688124
it's just very messy, that's all.

>>688027
I support this.

>>687692
why do they always decide to cover a finished board in hot glue

>>688216
As do I.

>>688226
It's conformal coating - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conformal_coating

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>>688230
you have shown me the world anon

a bit of a g thing but still fits here

>>687692
>irresistable

>>687474
Polymer caps perform better then electrolyte caps and therefore have to be selected at a lower value to keep the ratings in line with the electrolyte caps

>>688279
are you sure you don't mean "same value but smaller physical size because they are more efficient"? regardless of what it's made out of if it's rated to a set capacitance then it should be equal to another type of capacitor that is the same rating

>>688003
THEY'RE TRASHING OUR RIGHTS!!!

TRASHING!!!!

TRASHIIIIIIINGGGG!!!

>>687271
Would have been better if the blades started glowing

>>687278
Do you have the cap of the website that's from?

>>687954
No it fucking won't.

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>>687855
>mfw molecule

>>687267
this is how hyperdrive works

>>688482
no sorry, but you could search in the archive for the thread, i remember that it was linked there

>>687280
I have a boner.

>>687950
But will you do the fandango?

>>687685
cut one piece a little too long, too lazy to cut it again

>>687985
Hah

>>688441
HACK THE PLANET!!!!

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>>688608

>>688885
R...Really?

>>688926
It can't be real. Those adapters don't have any intelligence in them to do protocol and logic level conversion, they're just wires going from one connector to the other. A DB25 parallel port doesn't even have a power line, so there's no way the USB device could be getting power.

>>688937
Every one of the data lines on an LPT port is a 5v power line. This was used by stuff like the NESKey.

Nibble mode only uses four pins, so you've got another four free to power the device with.

>>687710
u wot m8? The funny thing is that those huge ass 200+ amp lines go to those tiny 25 square mm cables.

>>687581
Well babe you had the basic concept down. CELEBRATION SEX!! weeeee

>>688229
And my axe... Oh wait.

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>>687699
>>687701
That was a fantastic thread.
Was it Chinese immigrant landlord tries to build a shed or something right? There was a blog and everything

>>687685
>>687698
he didn't imagine he could just remove the central post. it was probably grandfathered in for the old fence when someone replaced the gate with a solid fence. it's about the right spacing from the wall to allow a gate. OP then didnt even bother levelling the panels so they stuck up and out everywhere with nails all over the place

>>688988
http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/shed-of-doom/photos

>>688975
>those huge ass 200+ amp lines go to those tiny 25 square mm cables
I'm fairly certain they go though the wall and somewhere else. Nothing wrong with the smal wires as long as there isn't much power drawn from them.

>>687686
can someone explain?

>>688995
there's a breaker in line. so i think they worked that one out.

but yes, the brown and white wires are switched.

>>688995
Unless they short...

>>688996
its a vertical stack of smd resistors. he ran out of a particular resistor value so used a bunch of larger values to make what he needed. i image searched it. not really funny, it's called a freestyle circuit or something. people actually do this sort of thing.

>>687702

For one the bars should be inside a cabinet as they'll turn anyone that touches them into ash

>>687687
That's cute as fuck.

>>687573
While you have a point, I think the space heater in the pile of clothes was more the problem.

>>688026
Is that where they got the name for Ruby on rails?

>>687587
oh god why

>>688450
>blades started glowing
I am so going to do this if I ever get a house.

>>688231
I don't know about that particular fixture, but:

>be in Taiwan
>fluorescent can light starts flickering REALLY ANNOYINGLY
>decide to pull bulb, get replacement, etc.
>try to figure out how to pop the cover off
>can't
>try to lever fixture out of ceiling
>holy shit this is hard
>finally
>get fixture pulled out of ceiling
>it has a metal arm to one side that has to be guided out of the hole in ceiling
>look carefully at the whole mess to figure out what I should have done
>front glass of fixture is in fact unremovable short of breaking it
>fluorescent bulb has two wood screws going from fixture into plastic base to hold it in place
>metal arm of fixture wraps around everything so that it takes real care not to shatter bulb when disassembling

The bulb actually wasn't replaceable in any other way than ripping the entire fixture out and using hand tools to disassemble it.

Taiwan. Go figure.

I've ranted on here before about the lack of U-traps in plumbing (because the construction magnates want to save fifteen bucks off the $30,000 cost of building a condominium that they then sell to suckers for $400,000).