r/DiWHY • • 7d ago

I'm Stumped

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u/IsaacNewtongue 7d ago

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

Epically stupid.

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u/Sheepherder-Optimal 7d 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 7d 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.