Title text: A circle with an A in it means that the circuit has committed a sin and has been marked as punishment.


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[A chart of various circuit symbols and their (mostly) fictitious meanings based off of their drawings, captioned:] Circuit Symbols

[Symbol for a switch, labelled:] Drawbridge

[Symbol for a capacitor, labelled:] Overpass

[Symbol for a connection to ground, labelled:] Pogo Stick

[Symbol for a resistor, labelled:] Earthquake

[Symbol for an inductor, labelled:] Sheep

[Symbol for a transformer, labelled:] Two Sheep in Love, Trapped on Opposite Sides of a Fence

[Symbol for a battery, labelled:] Battery

[Symbol for a battery, sorted, labelled:] Baertty

[Symbol for a battery, with far too many short lines, labelled:] Battttttttttttery

[Symbol for a photodiode, labelled:] Check Out This Really Cool Diode

[Symbol for an oscillator, labelled:] Wave Pool

[Symbol for a transistor, labelled:] Trolley Problem


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Don’t worry, someone will eventually come and tell you that it isn’t.

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I could resist the urge… But… Uh… The transcript incorrectly labels the symbol for capacitor, it’s actually the NEMA symbol for a contactor.

E: Had to make sure I wasn’t putting my foot in my mouth. Capacitor symbol is extremely similar, but the right side needs to be bent like a parentheses for it to be a capacitor like -|(-

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