It's ok you can swear on Lemmy

It's ok you can swear on Lemmy

While I still don't know what that thing is, this is much better. The edit makes it look like some VR headset holder or something.
its a mercury arc rectifier. They look quite neat under load
LMAO
The last picture shows a mercury arc valve, which behaves like a diode, for anyone curious.
Like the runes!
Not to be confused with this disasterpiece.

In case people want to learn more
FULL BRIDGE RECTIFIER!!!
Any sufficiently reliable magic is indistinguishable from science.
Science is just when magic sublimates onto the current space-time substrate.
What's the bottom right pic?
mercury-arc valve/rectifier
Has the power to ~~level~~ power entire cities
Oh yeah if it's not magic explain bees
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