/diy/ - Do It Yourself

>>1482934
>only having one soldering iron
>implying cord switches don't use screw terminals

>>1482821
Strapping two legs of a transistor together = a diode, and you can find a heatsinked transistor in almost everything.

>>1483125
>A flyback diode is a diode connected across an inductor used to eliminate flyback, which is the sudden voltage spike seen across an inductive load when its supply current is suddenly reduced or interrupted.

>>1483193
>>1483195
>>1483319
Engineering should be left to the autists. Ree.

I've literally never seen a wire nut fail, and the only complication is if you use shitty or old wires and they rip when you screw them in (or you use the wrong size). Not a problem, strip the wires, grab a new nut: five cents and 10 seconds, problem solved. Not some proprietary union kickback and patent cucked thing which actually Virgin forms a new shitty wire versus Chad holds the conductors in place. Literally the only thing better could be using a lead-based solder or welding the wires. I've seen quick-connectors fail, though I believe half were designed to act as fuses, they were in appliances.

Was it chronic retardation or some Moishe Shekelstien that changed policy?