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Ryan Castellucci (they/them) 
Which is worse?
| Smoke Emitting Diode | |
| Light Emitting Resistor |
Poll ends at .
Syntaxxor 🏳️⚧️ 
@ryanc "Light Emitting Resistor" so an incandescent lightbulb?
Noa@syntaxxor @ryanc lightbulb was my logic & why I voted "smoke", but an exposed resistor glowing is probably a more potent fire hazard.
Jon Gilbert@ryanc Resistor Emitting Diode?
disregard Joe Groff@ryanc pretty sure we used LERs to light our house back when i was a kid
XANTRONIX
Reed Mideke
Jay
ROTOPE~1 ⭐️@ryanc time emitting capacitor
markc568
prom™️
nobody
Pete Alex Harris🦡🕸️🌲/∞🪐∫@ryanc I wasn't sure, then I remembered that X-rays are also light.
𝓜𝓪𝓾𝓻𝓸 𝓥𝓮𝓷𝓲𝓮𝓻@ryanc
- Truth emitting AI 😜
- Truth emitting AI 😜
C. KnodelYou mean *o*mitting.
Analog AI@ryanc
I voted for the light emitting resistor, but after the fact realized that's just an incandescent light bulb -- and, as it turns out, the magic ingredient in Hewlett Packard's first product: a wave form synthesizer sold to Walt Disney Studios to be used in "Fantasia".
So I guess I voted wrong -- smoke emitting diodes are worse.
Arapalla
Ozzelot 
Rakul Amenta@ryanc explosively decoupling capacitor
Robert [KJ5ELX] 
@rakulamenta @ryanc tantalum?
Hans-Cees 🌳🌳🤢🦋🐈🐈🍋🍋🐝🐜@ryanc putting the wrong magnesium in your bath
@ryanc light emitting resistors smell worse, unless the diode is a selenium rectifier, which, I heard really smells horrid when it goes.
ARGVMI~1.PIFThe usual solution to this problem is to enclose the light-emitting resistor in a glass envelope filled with either inert gas or vacuum.
LERs so enclosed will emit light for a surprisingly long time—hundreds of hours—before failing.
I was assuming both options were failure modes. A glass enclosed resistor is not a failure mode its an essential device for light switch raves.
Jordan Maris 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 #NAFO@ryanc a light emitting resistor?! So an incandescent lightbulb?
Achim TheobaldAll the same...
Mx. Luna Corbden 🐸
Bjoern Michaelsen@ryanc
Dont these two converge to being the same thing?
Dont these two converge to being the same thing?
Torge Rosendahl@ryanc Smoke emitting diode is quite certainly done for. Light emitting resistor might still work afterwards. So the former.
an actual bus@renardboy exciting, this is the first time I am talking to an actual bus
@torgeros most of us aren't on social media, despite improvements in accessibility technology it remains difficult for us to operate computers. But it *is* possible, I am proof of that.
Epic Null
Marcella (she/her) 
:Blahaj:@ryanc Isn't the light emitting resistor commonly known as a... filament?
Sc00bz
Bert Koorengevel
Frank Heijkamp@ryanc
In both cases smoke and light are involved. However the first one is being active where the second one takes it passively.
In both cases smoke and light are involved. However the first one is being active where the second one takes it passively.
Billy SmithCan we have an "All Of The Above" option please? :D
Bryan 
Magnus Ahltorp@ryanc My favourite is the Light Emitting Diode emitting the wrong kind of light.
"That's a different colour. Oh."
tibi
Warlocklord@ryanc smell emitting diode
Kaifi 🍉
Johannes Ernst@ryanc Explosively smoke emitting capacitor.
Followed by a rapid evacuation from the lab due to unexpected olfactory adventures.
For the skilled among us, accelerated by leveraging the impulse from the top of the cap.
Bill RickerDepends.
If it is a large, old Selenium diode, that is life-threatening hazmat smoke.
(Two of our Math/CS profs were working on an early computer several decades ago when the power-supply blew with their heads in proximity. They were treated and released, but the dangers of Selenium rectifiers was impressed upon them.)
(A few old AC/DC trolley power conversion stations have striped "Se" warning diamonds still.)
Tom BortelsYou can make some resistors emit light, and that's ok. Even their purpose.
But when smoke comes out, that's generally a bad day.
fliegerjohn@ryanc every light bulb is a light emitting resistor, so don't worry about that.
Smoke emitting diode sounds bad. Only does that once... 😂
Smoke emitting diode sounds bad. Only does that once... 😂
Frosch B