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your brain on day 3 of planing a magnetic loop antenna (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 2 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 37 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

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

Personenvereinzelungsanlage

Thank me later.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

So essentially a 'queue slicer'?

Bruh. Why does German make so much sense

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 week ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Rindfleischettikettierungsüberwachungsaufgabenübertragungsgesetz

Mfg

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

I think it's been repealed btw. :'(

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

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.)

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

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)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

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.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

Personenvereinzelungsanlage

No, we don't use that word. It's "Drehkreuz" or whatever.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

It's definitely not "whatever"

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

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

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago

... Planing or planning?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

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:

https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/380104/how-to-pulse-an-led-for-a-second-with-just-a-single-switch-resistors-and-capaci

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

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