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[–] [email protected] 95 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Also known as "incandescent lightbulb"

[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Don't even need to be facing them!

[–] [email protected] 62 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Every diode is an LED if used wrong enough.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 39 points 10 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 31 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

Same resistance, variable voltage.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago

Smoke producing transistor

[–] [email protected] 19 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

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

[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 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

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 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.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago

Meeh, we all make mistakes buddy ☺️.