DerKirche
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rule number one of soldering is to have fun and be yourself!
Jun 25, 2025 2:02 PM
DerKirche
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rule number one of soldering is to have fun and be yourself!
dreyfusslugado
This kills the device.
ontarioOT
Every machine is a smoke machine if you use it wrongly enough (i.e., with this cord).
puregravy
The trick is not letting the smoke out
GasBandit
Pilgrymm
Rule #2 of soldering club, don't talk about soldering club
hannibalhague
And don't use solder in this example
ParaspriteHugger
Rule #1: Don't:
q2grapple
Sorry, I’m new here. Do you Mean Project Mayhem?
Pilgrymm
Hey were not supposed to talk about it jeez
MaliceQahwah
Etherkiller lives on!
loowitslair
Or,
androgenoide
NomadUniverse
Ah, the new How Dead aM I cable.
FakeName4FakeFame
POHDMI
GreaseMonkeyOfLove
Smoke Releaser 1000.
amp99
spinballwizardmtg
Every machine is a smoke machine if you operate it wrong enough.
joeyecho101
PowerPedant
Which lightning connector version is that?
TopFurret
Someone at a previous job did something like this and caused a fire in a fume hood over flammable chemicals that the company tried to cover up. We were so close to being on a top 10 workplace accidents video or something.
pdp1
hogeyegrex
Rule number one of soldering is: If it smells like chicken you’re holding it wrong.
SirChadwellHeath
cousteau
I did this recently. You haven't learned how to solder until you solder your own fingers.
Fruc
I don’t think any solder is required for this.
slidewhistlesymphony
rule number one of soldering is to have fun and be yourself!
Yasashii93
Rule #2 is don’t make that kind of cables.
Oatmealman1
Solder? You mean spliced wires with no solder at all. Bot account? Or just spam crap
Cronos51101
Curious what you'd even solder in this case. HDMI has like 19 pins.
ChloeRed
Alternate ones, same as an etherkiller (mains to 8p8c network jack)
TheGgreen100
Easy! You just strip the wires and twist them all into three bunches. Kinda surprised you didn't know that.
zenoshogun
Chair5768
Now I've heard there was a secret cord
That David used, and saw the Lord
loedout
FireFistKimberly
Let's get down to business
Shaows
This is for those new video cards that need an addition 1000w of power to run properly.
pipatron
I'm worried that the abrupt change in impedance will cause reflections of the signal.
pipatron
Wohoo! 8 engineers so far!
NowhereMan313
Nah, it'll be aright.
khora
The encryption keys won't match, so it won't start streaming anyway.
Randomice
It makes your monitor extra bright!
PanNonOpticon
Or computer.
Clayman8
Once*.
It makes it "solar flare" bright ONCE.
hakunamatatamotherfucker
Or graphics card so fast it disappears into smoke.
WinstonWinifredWoofington
For a extremely short period of time
ztygs
The monitor that burns twice as bright burns half as long, or something.
Randomice
Let's not quibble about details.
clarkWhogotsanity
Ah yes the official 'its definitely broken now' cord
amp99
GamiCross
Hardware Repair Shop 731.
nefroye
That would have been so much better if they had started up a video of a waterfall or something like that on the computer.
shadow351
Cindy! The TV's leaking!
FailedMitosis
Water cooling done right.
3Davideo
I guarantee it'll never overheat again!
painstream
The attachment I need for when someone heeds my request to wipe my hard drive in the event of my untimely demise.
6opko
...so that's streaming!
dreyfusslugado
This kills the device.
dreyfusslugado
... and probably the device owner, as well.
pipatron
Just tickles it a bit.
MostlyJeffGoldblum
as a treat
Tattooedpariah
O0o0o0o, a new god cord! (A cord, that when used, is probably gonna introduce you to your god..)
stryhf
I'll add it to my collection.
androgenoide
ghostly69
This is the Ring of Thunder
Hammerwell
Not necessarily. If the outside is still ground, the pins inside are better protected than the plugs.
AveryLynel
NONE of the passives inside the monitor are rated for 120V AC. Do you know what AC does to caps? Goes right through them.
Hammerwell
Bah, the screenplate is quite sturdy. It goes all out the back and up in flames.
UristImiknorris
They say there is a secret chord / You plug it in and meet the Lord
pnersvfu
I read this to the tune of Leonard Cohen hallelujah.
TheCrimsonRaven
Ooo but you don't have the amperage...do you?
OnyxTurret
but you don't really care for OSHA duo ya?
ghostly69
A direct line with God they say
Tattooedpariah
Normally it's this one... more amps.
iamlegendinjapan
The breaker finder
androgenoide
SillyZombie
What in this was soldered?
AlwaysDownvoteDots
The wires, Coral.
philmoregraves
The one cable to the other. Without x-ray vision i can't tell you where the ground, neutral, or line cables are soldered but.... it's to something maybe
ElectricSlideOrchestra
The poorly heat shrink covered joint next to the HDMI plug.
Kennleth
I think that's just electrical tape.
bitemark
They're implying that it will dump wall current (usually 120v/1500 watts) directly into an hdmi port (5v/0.25 watts). It's going to remove the magic smoke
Badprenup
It's not like a fiber optic cable or anything, there's plenty of copper in an HDMI cable that could be soldered to a power cable.
BoobJiggle
Can I just say that humans are awesome engineers? Like we think of ourselves as different, but we really are just another species of animal on this planet. We are monkeys that have figured out how to create some pretty awesome shit.
And something so mundane as an HDMI cable, think of the engineering and processes that go into manufacturing that cable. And then they sell it for $4.99 on Amazon
cantcomplain
well, if you want to get a GOOD one, you need to spend more like $79 on a gold-plated Monster one. /s
AlwaysDownvoteDots
That's just the magic of 150-ish years of iterative design. Humans love to iterate.
Badprenup
It really is awesome. In my lifetime I've seen us go from awful screw-in coaxial and VGA cables with garbage quality to plugs that are smaller than those and can deliver 4k, 120 fps, and 7.1 surround sound.
Shit we can fucking send blistering amounts of data across the planet at near-instant speed using cables transmitting light. That's incredible!
SlowerDwightYouIgnorantSlut
Typically HDMI cables are not powered by a wall socket.
sh17picker69000420
Yea... but to get that lavel of ugly, you wouldn't soldier it.
quzar
I think the implication is that no soldering would be required to create such a thing.
TinyLiehon
When that screen hits 88kw per hour... you're gonna see some serious sh*t.
SillyZombie
Technically they are tho
poscduke
https://media3.giphy.com/media/v1.Y2lkPWE1NzM3M2U1djVjdXE1cTdmbzczazRhZDBvbzRhOHlqM25vZ3Exb3NwdDJscGRscCZlcD12MV9naWZzX3NlYXJjaCZjdD1n/1hMk0bfsSrG32Nhd5K/200w.webp
AveryLynel
Nah. They're powered by the stepped-down DC voltage from a dedicated power supply which itself is powered by the wall. Important distinction
SlowerDwightYouIgnorantSlut
SillyZombie
So, technically, they are
AveryLynel
In the exact same way that everything, including us, is powered by the big bang, sure.