Different Names for Electronic Components

[Veeren]

Hi All,

I came up with new names for some electronic components.

Here we go:

Rotmeter, a bad potmeter.

Flakeistor, a resistor that is all over the place.
Fakeistor, a zero Ohm resistor
Desistor, a resistor that can`t make up its mind.

Insistor, a resistor that doesn't want to burn.
Bafenser, a exploding condenser.

A coil and a resistor in parallel, a reductor

Please feel free to find more names,
Best regards, Veeren

 

[nigelwright7557]

That's what I like a good meaningful thread !
She was only the electronic engineers daughter but no one could resistor.
Ohm, ohm on the range where the deer and the antelope play.

Fit a diode to any faulty circuit and that should "rectify" the problem.

 

[nigelwright7557]

Condenser in the old days for capacitor.

 

[Speaker Dude]

Disistor - A diode that has become a resistor. PIA to find too.

 

[Galu]

I'm rising to the challenge - enjoy!

Delay - a sticky relay
Tatrode - a cheap tube
Flattery - a flat battery
Pest lead - a tangled test lead

 

[Galu]

Here's a few more!

Failed Effect Transistor - a Chinese FET
Disintegrated circuit - a burned out chip
Pop-amp - an overloaded op-amp

 

[Veeren]

Whatistor

Thank you all so much keep it going!


Whatistor, a unknown 3-8 legged semiconductor


Best regards, Veeren

 

[dhaen]

I can only manage one:
Flakey - a duff keyboard switch

The rest are different descriptions for components, so slightly off-topic:

damper diode - diode developed in Atlantis
flyback diode - diode with wings
torx - a screw that says it'll screw you
Hall Effect Device - delay for rear speakers
Reed switch - emergency surgery for the Saxophone
Micro-controller - a petite wife
Photomultiplier - photo printing lab
Mercury arc rectifier - orbit corrector for planet 1
Trim pot - potentiometer that exercises regularly

 

[Galu]

Are these cringeworthy enough?

Deadphones - bargain store specials!
Tantrum capacitor - may refuse to store a charge
Balloon - poorly designed balun
Bandana lead - tied up banana lead
Splutter - noisy signal splitter
Stopper motor - converts electricity into zero motion
Hot sink - inefficient heat sink
Boggle switch - off when on
USB flush drive - my data has gone down the toilet!
Yogi - an antenna that's a bear to align
Prototype bored - time this project was brought to a conclusion!

 

[Veeren]

Thank you guys, this is so funny!

Thanks to all, so funny!


Heat-shrink, a psychiatrist with a sunburn.

 

[radiosmuck]

Lewdspeakers - popular in Scotland

 

[Galu]

Lewdspeakers - popular in Scotland

I trust you're poking fun at the Scottish accent rather than suggesting a salacious fascination for big woofers!

Jock plug - a Scottish electrical connector

 

[nigelwright7557]

I trust you're poking fun at the Scottish accent rather than suggesting a salacious fascination for big woofers!

Don't provoke the Jocks !
I am just over the border in England and they will invade us again.

Yours sincerely, the Sasanach.

 

[Galu]

Don't provoke the Jocks!

Not if you want to keep custody of your Cumberland sausage!

Blinking plate - an undersized blanking plate

 

[lcsaszar]

These words can't be translated from my language:

diófa (nut tree) - from "dióda" (diode)
ellenállat (contra animal) - from "ellenállás" (resistor)
kondi - from "kondenzátor" (capacitor)
trafó - from "transzformátor" (transformer)
tranyó - from tranzisztor (transistor)
tekrenc - from tekercs (coil)
poti - from potenciometer (variable resistor)

and so on

 

[radiosmuck]

Muvverboards, like wot they 'ave in London

 

[lcsaszar]

+ this one:

elkó - from "elektrolitikus kondenzátor" - (electrolytical capacitor)

Everybody hates its long official name

 

[sippy]

Ring Radiator - a womans digits

Bass Bin - the foundation for other bins to sit upon

JFET - a smoking fetish

MOSFET - fetish for moss

Triode - 3 debts
Tetrode - 4 debts
Pentode - 5 debts
Diode - 1: A Welshman in debt. 2: Died owing a debt