Bad Electronics Jokes

[eutectique]

‒ Do you have four-volt two-watt light bulbs?
‒ For what?
‒ No, two.
‒ To what?
‒ Yes.
‒ No.

[MrMobodies]

From a discussion in the Eevblog IRC about an overload relay for a contactor.

Q: Why wasn't one wired in to the HS2 project.

A: <coppice> HS2 = High Spending 2, the sequel

[niconiconi]

Q: What do you say when Hammerstad & Jensen's microstrip formula underestimates signal losses due to surface roughness at high frequencies?

A: "It's only a rough approximation."

[niconiconi]

Q: Why does a Web-browsing PC eventually arc over and blow up in an electrical breakdown after a few years?

A: Too much tracking.

[niconiconi]

Q: What do you call a technical expert on circuit board gold plating?
A: ENIGneer

Q: Why does a circuit board factory make bare copper boards without tin plating?
A: It's too much of a HASL.

[MrMobodies]

A: What when they try to sell you Meanwell power supply knock off's?

A: They don't Mean well.

[MrMobodies]

Q:What happened to a Chinese group at St Pancras station when Christina Lee Turned up?

A: She controlled them at a firmware level.
Proprietary to the CCP.

Joke in reference to a clash between a pianist, Brendan Kavanagh and the Chinese over a piano John Elton donated to St Prancras tube station in London.

It was pointed out in some followup videos that when Christine Lee turned up the group went from being very nice and friendly to very aggressive and nasty when Brendan refused to removed/edit them from his livestream saying it was public space in a free country and it isn't not China etc.
youtube.com/watch?v=65iwnI2hjAA

Removed https:// as I don't want video to auto play here.

[niconiconi]

Q: What do you say when electronics engineers apply Laplace transform so they can do algebra instead of calculus?

A: It's a heavy side-step.

[niconiconi]

"If a power supply filter has a high quality factor, it means the filter is of low quality."

[niconiconi]

Q: Why is it easier to measure a circuit in time domain?

A: It's not complex and there's only one step.

[niconiconi]

Q: What's the difference between an authentic Li-ion battery and a counterfeit one?

A: For the former, the battery gets charged. For the latter, the seller gets charged.

[NiHaoMike]

"If a power supply filter has a high quality factor, it means the filter is of low quality."

Had that problem a few times at work, needed a choke in series with the power supply to reduce the measurement noise, all they had were good quality toroids. My fix was to put a piece of scrap wire through the toroid and twist the ends together to make a shorted turn...

Q: What's the difference between an authentic Li-ion battery and a counterfeit one?

A: For the former, the battery gets charged. For the latter, the seller gets charged.

If only that's how it worked, most counterfeit sellers just operate from countries that don't enforce it well.

[MK14]

Q: Does anyone want a pile of dead batteries, I've accumulated?

A: If you do, you can have them, free of charge

[Nominal Animal]

No thanks, I've got enough trouble with my own piles.

[rogerggbr]

Fault with AC/DC concert tickets cannot be rectified

[niconiconi]

Q: Why does a football player always get the same score for a goal regardless of the path a football took to get there?

A: Because the football field has a vanishing curl.

[Infraviolet]

There were plenty of cities in the soviet union called *grad, as most were within river valleys, how was their div though?

[44kgk1lkf6u]

Reading all these jokes about bipolar transistors reminded me of an old esaeP's fable:

A group of engineers were debating about which animal is the fiercest.  One engineer said the tiger is the fiercest animal.  Another argued that the lion is much fiercer.  Along came a marketing guy.  He said, "You guys are all wrong.  The fiercest animal is the Bipolar Bear."  Everybody looked at him quizzically.  "Yes, the Bipolar Bear is the biggest, meanest, orneriest, fiercest animal that is, and he has a head on both ends.  That's why he is called the Bipolar Bear."

Everybody shut up and looked thoughtful.  Finally one engineer asked, "... but ... if he has a head on both ends ... how does he ... eliminate?"  And the marketing guy said, "Well, he doesn't eliminate.  And that is why he is the biggest, the meanest, the fiercest, the orneriest...."  So if you see a fierce circuit made with npn and pnp transistors, and it is really mean and ornery, perhaps that might be because it is a Bipolar Bear.

[SiliconWizard]

‒ Do you have four-volt two-watt light bulbs?
‒ For what?
‒ No, two.
‒ To what?
‒ Yes.
‒ No.

You should try it with ChatGPT.