The *** Life of an Electron

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El Cajone

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This one's been around for decades, familiar to most electrical engineers, but still pretty clever:

The *** life of an Electron

by Eddie Currents

One night when his charge was pretty high, Micro-Farad decided to seek
out a cute little coil to help him discharge. He picked up Milli-Amp and took

her for a ride in his Megacycle. They rode across the Wheatstone Bridge and

stopped by a Magnetic field with flowing currents and frolicked in the sine waves.

Micro-Farad, attracted by Millie-Amp's characteristic curves soon had her fully

charged and proceeded to excite her resistance to a minimum. He gently laid her

at ground potential, raised her frequency and lowered her reluctance. With a quick arc,

he pulled out his high voltage probe and inserted it in her socket, connecting them in parallel.

He slowly began short circuiting her resistance shunt while quickly raising her thermal

conductance level to mil-spec.

Fully excited, Milli- Amp mumbled "MHO...MHO...MHO". With his tube operating well into

class C, and her field vibrating with his current flow, a corona formed which instantly caused

her shunt to overheat just at the point when Micro-Farad rapidly discharged and drained

off every electron into her grid. They fluxed all night trying various connectors and sockets

until his magnet had a soft core and lost all of its field strength.

Afterwards, Milli-Amp tried self-induction and damaged her solenoids and with his battery fully

discharged, Micro-Farad was unable to excite his field. Not ready to be quiescent, they spent

the rest of the evening reversing polarity and blowing each other’s fuses.

 
Called a contractor to send me a real controls guy, the other guy's couldn't use a meter.

Dude shows up with OHMS law tattooed on his arm, oh yeah that's what I'm talking about.

Turned out to be a lightweight *****.

 
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