the diagram is an AC to DC converter.
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Full bridge rectifier¿
Thick eye brows intensifies!
First thing that went through my mind lol
Yes, with Mehdi's enthusiastic pronounciation, +1
RF engineer here, living the life of magic in the air and space!
Yeah but it's too realistic, I want something convenient! Let me read one book and gain the power to create floating ice! Not read like 5 giant books and stufy for years so that I can create a microwave 😔
No shade to microwaves, one of my favorite magic items
Hello every wizard protagonist in every fantasy YA novel ever.
That diagram is just heat with extra steps.
I mean, yea. The people designing the AC to DC power supplies often don't care what you use them for, why would they bother putting schematics for a real load on their diagram?
That's what someone who doesn't understand magic would say.
Follow the spell incorrectly and that is indeed all you would get.
That's not a resistor it's actually a BIG LOAD. The diagram would better show it as a reactive load (usually just a rectangle) since most real loads are reactive. Get it?
That's what I was thinking. Depending on the supply that'll start a fire.
It's a basic AC rectifier, the resistor represents an arbitrary DC load. You use similar circuits all the time, though generally with additional failsafes and some mechanism of smoothing out the rectified current.
Only thing dumber than a mechanical engineer is an electrical engineer trying to design a housing.
You want to understand the deep magic, talk to electricians and technicians.
There's a lot of machinists who think they are hot shit, so fitting username.
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Gotta love the progression in this.
Paraphrasing Arthur C. Clarke: Any technology is indistinguishable from magic, to the sufficiently ignorant.
Clarke's Maxim: Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
Corollary / Contrapositive: Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced.
My version seems like another good corollary.
We always joked it was black magic but its literally on the name.
An actual textbook cover. I mean... An ancient grimoire of the dark arts
Edit: I almost forgot about the sequel
The bible of my people
Omg I cant believe this is real.
I always thought that would be a good style for a dart board. Score would be -dB(return loss)
Genius concept. just need a catchy name.
Squint at this (from this wiki page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_demons_in_the_Ars_Goetia) and these might be either ancient sigils or electronic symbols*.
EDIT: Fixed a typo
Okay, this is dying for me to learn Godot and make a game
Doooo it!
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