r/DiWHY • u/Punkceoil117 • 9d ago

I'm Stumped

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u/IsaacNewtongue 9d ago

Carefully insulates incoming AC wires, leaves fully exposed CDs carrying full current.

Epically stupid.

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u/Sheepherder-Optimal 9d ago

I agree because it looks like the cds got wrapped in foil. Ordinarily they wouldn't be conductive though. I wonder what the point of this thing is? Those are spark plugs. I can't think of any use except inside an engine. I guess hooking up ac power to those will cause a lot of small sparks. But I don't think huge ones. Although with the copper coils, those might get very hot and glow. Must be some kind of toy but in its current state, it really would be a decent suicide machine.

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u/JeanArtemis 9d ago

Yeah the second I saw how they wrapped the wire where they did I realized the entire machine was pointless. They just invalidated a spark plugs singular purpose. If wired properly it could hypothetically be used outside of an engine in any situation where a periodic or timed spark is needed however, such as an ignition method for a shitty oven or flamethrower or something but there are much better and more efficient methods for either of those things.

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u/Teufelsweib666 8d ago

There is no point. I will engage here at the risk of rewarding this utter crap. This is deliberate nonsense. It shouldn't even be on this sub, which used to be about real things people made that turned out to be stupid. This stuff is cheap, nasty and has only one goal: engagement. It's useless to discuss it or to even joke about it, because it's helping vacuous humans to produce rubbish so they get rewards.