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Old October 23rd, 2009, 06:14 PM
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Not to nitpick too much, but transistors don't light up unless things are very wrong...
Triode valves in the other hand...
And een then they don't "light up" so much as just, release the "magic blue smoke" that makes all electronics work..
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On a side note isn't the point of this effeect to simulate things going "Very wrong"?
Yes, but nine times out of ten, when things go very wrong the transistors turn into noise and smoke emitting devices rather than LEDs...
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We don't have to obey the laws of physics. We have an ARTISTIC LICENSE.
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