• MotoAsh@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    I’m more impressed he made it work with a single connection to one battery terminal.

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      3 months ago

      It’s alternative current. You can’t see it because it’s a still image, but that alligator clip is actually alternating back and forth between the two terminals 60 times per second.

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        3 months ago

        baha I mean, that still wouldn’t produce much current at all depending on the capacitance of the lights and the voltage of that battery, but… funny beats reality on the far side.