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• socsa@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  You definitely can.

  Source: am high level electrical engineer.

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  • Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    That’s not a short, by definition.

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    • boonhet@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Isn’t it? You’re shorting the battery terminals by connecting them directly, it’s just a shitty wire lol

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      • Akasazh@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        The body is a resistor, limiting the fire of the system in the same way if a lamp would be in the circuit.

        A short is a circuit with ideally no impedance, there isn’t an ideal circuit and one can debate how much resistance would invalidate the term ‘short circuit’ so both of you might be right.

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  • tomiant@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Oh yeah? What level?

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    • credo@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Two joints

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      • tomiant@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        That’s decently high ngl.

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• Warl0k3@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Is this a semantic argument about my use of “short”?

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  • Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    The way you worded it makes it sound like it’s very easy to short a battery with your body, not that attempting to short a battery will cause “no issue” because it won’t actually work.

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    • Warl0k3@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I’m aware - I very intentionally spared everyone the lecture on the mechanics of how this works because it is, on the whole, very boring. However if we really wanted to get into the boring technical details nobody but us cares about then yes, you are indeed shorting the battery, it’s just for a ludicrously small amount of current.

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      • Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Thing is, you also called it “shorting” the battery. Usually a short is an unintended, unsustainable low resistance path.

        While your body may technically close the circuit, calling it a short makes it sound like an actual electricution risk. That combined with the unclear “no issue” usage made it pretty confusing, I thought you had no idea what you were talking about until I saw your reply.

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      • tomiant@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Oooh, because we’re too dumb to understand the finer details of electrical engineering, is that it? IS THAT IT?

        Because yeah I am too dumb to understand even the coarser details of electrical engineering.

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  • asbestos@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Did you mean short circuit the battery using your bare hands?

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    • Warl0k3@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I meant contact both terminals at once with your bare hands.

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      • asbestos@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        But that won’t short circuit it is my point

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