Is this a semantic argument about my use of “short”?
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asbestos@lemmy.world 3 hours agoWho the hell told you you can short a car battery with your body? You absolutely can’t.
Warl0k3@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
asbestos@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
Did you mean short circuit the battery using your bare hands?
Warl0k3@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
I meant contact both terminals at once with your bare hands.
asbestos@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
But that won’t short circuit it is my point
Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz 3 hours 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.
Warl0k3@lemmy.world 3 hours 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.
tomiant@piefed.social 2 hours 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.
Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz 3 hours 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.
socsa@piefed.social 3 hours ago
You definitely can.
Source: am high level electrical engineer.
Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz 2 hours ago
That’s not a short, by definition.
tomiant@piefed.social 2 hours ago
Oh yeah? What level?
credo@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
Two joints
tomiant@piefed.social 1 hour ago
That’s decently high ngl.