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Light is light 🀷 (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 8 months ago by 0x4E4F@sh.itjust.works to c/askelectronics@discuss.tchncs.de
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[–] Hexagon@feddit.it 95 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Also known as "incandescent lightbulb"

[–] sploosh@lemmy.world 9 points 8 months ago

Also, heating elements. Which I guess are just durable incandescent lightbulbs.

[–] mvirts@lemmy.world 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

The viewing angles on these new LER displays are going to be insane

[–] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 1 points 8 months ago

Don't even need to be facing them!

[–] Darkassassin07@lemmy.ca 62 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Every diode is an LED if used wrong enough.

[–] CJOtheReal@ani.social 12 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Everything is a Firestarter if you use it with high enough voltage...

[–] 0x4E4F@sh.itjust.works 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Even Keith Flint.

[–] Donkter@lemmy.world 39 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Everything is a light emitting resistor if you send enough power through it.

[–] 0x4E4F@sh.itjust.works 8 points 8 months ago

The sun: Damn it, I knew it 😠. I thought I was special πŸ₯Ί.

[–] madmaurice@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 8 months ago

In university in the first lecture I visited they demonstrated that fact using a pickle. They sent current through and it glowed.

[–] troyunrau@lemmy.ca 31 points 8 months ago (1 children)

My stovetop is a light emitting resistor. And compared to LEDs, it is multifrequency! Checkmate atheists.

[–] Death_Equity@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago

Same resistance, variable voltage.

[–] LazaroFilm@lemmy.world 21 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Gas emitting capacitor

[–] Death_Equity@lemmy.world 10 points 8 months ago

Smoke producing transistor

[–] chemicalwonka@discuss.tchncs.de 19 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

If you stop to think about , all resistors are emitting light, but under certain conditions it becomes visible (to our eyes)

[–] MxM111@kbin.social 10 points 8 months ago

It’s the other way around. LEDs are usually monochrome.

[–] brokenlcd@feddit.it 7 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Quartz heating elements are also resistors that emit light, but i've never seen anyone complain about them, people tend complain when they dont actually

[–] BaroqueInMind@kbin.social 0 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Emitting is spelled wrong. In the age of fucking spell check software being literally fucking everywhere, there is no excuse other than to chalk it to simple stupidity now.

Edit: I am stupid.

[–] 0x4E4F@sh.itjust.works 8 points 8 months ago

Meeh, we all make mistakes buddy ☺️.