If it holds one human, how can we compensate for a better power factor?
your brain on day 3 of planing a magnetic loop antenna
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lmuel@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks ago
Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
It hold more than one human if you’re sufficiently motivated
lmuel@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks ago
It will also stop less than one (me) if sufficiently motivated
meyotch@slrpnk.net 3 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.
Madagaskar_sky@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Hey guys, know jackshit about electronics. Wouldn’t this be an inductor instead?
meyotch@slrpnk.net 3 weeks ago
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 3 weeks ago
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?
katriik@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
Interesting enough, this could also be a diode because it only allows one way passage.
InverseParallax@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
… Planing or planning?
HairyHarry@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
The “There is a German word for this” of the week:
Personenvereinzelungsanlage
Thank me later.
SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
Bruh. Why does German make so much sense
tacosanonymous@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
Mostly, they cheat. They just describe a thing and take away the spaces.
Johanno@feddit.org 3 weeks 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)
Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 3 weeks ago
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.
MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
Personenvereinzelungsanlage No, we don’t use that word. It’s “Drehkreuz” or whatever.
HairyHarry@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Apparently we DO use it: simons-voss.com/…/personenvereinzelungsanlage.htm…
Jumi@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
It’s definitely not “whatever”