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Originally Posted by Sharroll Celby
That's a good one!
Now see if you can find the essay which states that there is "smoke" in electrical systems, and when you "fry" a system and smoke comes out, thus rendering the system non-functional. Or something like that! lol !
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Being an electrical guy, I can shed a little light here.
A lot of people think electronics/electrical are smoke and mirrors. This is true to a point, but the mirrors are just a distraction and can be thought of as "Makeup". They make the circuits look better (at least they look really handsome when I am looking at the mirrors in the circuit). The real functionality comes from the smoke. Another big mistake here as all smoke is not created equal. But, as you stated, once you let the smoke out, the circuit becomes non functional, or at least less functional. The wrong type of smoke in a circuit,even contained, will not work properly. This is true up to the point of the circuit behaving as if there is no smoke in it, or even causing smoke to be released from a different part, or even a complete different circuit making you believe there are problems away from the true source. Smoke is very tricky like that.