How a car cigarette lighter works, in CT scans
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How a car cigarette lighter works, in CT scans
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Re: How a car cigarette lighter works, in CT scans
#2It's a cool explanation, but I'm not sure what a CT scan offers that cutting it in half with a bandsaw wouldn't.
Re: How a car cigarette lighter works, in CT scans
#3It's a cool explanation, but I'm not sure what a CT scan offers that cutting it in half with a bandsaw wouldn't.
When all you are is a hammer manufacturer, all your demos look like nails.
Re: How a car cigarette lighter works, in CT scans
#4Seeing clever, simple, and reliable mechanisms like this make me think that digital electronics has really enabled modern engineers to be lazy.
Re: How a car cigarette lighter works, in CT scans
#5> this design, developed in the 1950s, is entirely analog
Uhm, how is this analog? Perhaps "electro-mechanical?" Is there such a thing as a "digital cigarette lighter?"
It's not like the electric circuit is an analog of the act of lighting a cigarette; as opposed to what we commonly use the word "analog" to mean that something in the system is an analog to what's being recorded or processed. (IE, in analog tape the magnetic signal is an analog to the real signal, or in analog TV the signal is an analog to the brightness of the picture at a specific moment in time.)
Re: How a car cigarette lighter works, in CT scans
#6It's a cool explanation, but I'm not sure what a CT scan offers that cutting it in half with a bandsaw wouldn't.
IR heat profile might have been cool.
It's a shame cars don't come with them anymore. A lighter can save someone's life and cost next to nothing. You can toss a lighter in but something about the designated electric plug is pleasing and invites you not to lose it.
Re: How a car cigarette lighter works, in CT scans
#7> this design, developed in the 1950s, is entirely analog Uhm, how is this analog? Perhaps "electro-mechanical?" Is there such a thing as a "digital cigarette lighter?" It's not like the electric circuit is an analog of the act of lighting a cigarette; as opposed to what we commonly use the word "analog" to mean that something in the system is an analog to what's being recorded or processed. (IE, in analog tape the m…
It's a valid distinction of the author to make. I don't know if there's such thing as a cigarette lighter which uses digital circuitry, but there theoretically could be.
The way the lighter in the article works is both analog _and_ electro-mechanical.
Re: How a car cigarette lighter works, in CT scans
#8> this design, developed in the 1950s, is entirely analog Uhm, how is this analog? Perhaps "electro-mechanical?" Is there such a thing as a "digital cigarette lighter?" It's not like the electric circuit is an analog of the act of lighting a cigarette; as opposed to what we commonly use the word "analog" to mean that something in the system is an analog to what's being recorded or processed. (IE, in analog tape the m…
> Is there such a thing as a "digital cigarette lighter?"
Yes: https://www.walmart.com/ip/Flameless-Cigarette-Lighter-USB-R... :-)
Re: How a car cigarette lighter works, in CT scans
#9It's a cool explanation, but I'm not sure what a CT scan offers that cutting it in half with a bandsaw wouldn't.
When all you are is a hammer manufacturer, all your demos look like nails.
In which case the question gets inverted:
Why of all common things you could CT scan and show people, you choose something that is kinda obvious to anyone who has thought about it for five seconds? I don't think average people struggle to understand the concept of "electricity makes wire hot", especially if they lived at the same time as normal car cigarette lighter usage.
Re: How a car cigarette lighter works, in CT scans
#10It's a cool explanation, but I'm not sure what a CT scan offers that cutting it in half with a bandsaw wouldn't.
It's a scanner company showing off their scanners, they don't sell bandsaws. :p
That said, it's a kind of marketing I like, since it does have some underlying product-performance and educational virtue to it.