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[–] logicbomb@lemmy.world 35 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

That "parallel" diagram.... what am I looking at? The voltage is on the left, and presumably the load is on the bottom and that's supposed to be a resistor placeholder. But the wire connects all the way around bypassing the killers, so I guess killers must be some sort of capacitor and this is some sort of killer-driven filter?

[–] BartyDeCanter@lemmy.sdf.org 18 points 2 weeks ago

Taking a look at the bottom circuit, the killers on the left have the supply voltage across them, as does the resistive load. The ones on the right have fuck all going on, so may be a Magic Switch.

[–] Pat_Riot@lemmy.today 8 points 2 weeks ago

Well killers do remove people with some frequency, so I suppose they are functioning as a filter.