2507: USV-C
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 Title text: Ultra-Serial Violet C light is unpolarized, so you don't have to flip the polarizing filter over when you get the orientation wrong the first time. |
Explanation
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This is the fourth installment in the series of Cursed Connectors and presents Cursed Connectors #280: USB-C to UV-C. It follows 2503: Memo Spike Connector (#102).
This comic depicts a cable that converts from USB-C (at the top of the picture) to UV-C (at the bottom).
USB-C is a rotationally symmetrical Universal Serial Bus (USB) connector.
UV-C is a range of ultraviolet light with wavelengths between 100 and 280 nm. This is often used as a germicide, so this comic may also be related to the COVID-19 pandemic.
The title text mentions that UV-C is unpolarized. This mirrors the fact that USB-C is symmetrical. So neither of them requires you to get the orientation right when using it.
Transcript
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- [A cable with a USB-C connector on one end and a UV-C LED on the other end is shown]
- Cursed Connectors #280
- USB-C to UV-C
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I just did my first edit! It'll definitely get changed, but I guess this is good enough for a start
162.158.89.204 16:30, 25 August 2021 (UTC)
that's not as absurd as it sounds. there are optical usb cables which work by converting the usb signals to and from light signals.162.158.92.83 16:48, 25 August 2021 (UTC)
I bet this is going to be an xkcd that gets recreated in real life.
108.162.215.87 17:01, 25 August 2021 (UTC)
There are ultraviolet LED lamps that are powered at 5V with an USB connector. xkcd in real life it's already done. 141.101.105.27 17:57, 25 August 2021 (UTC)
- I've been unable to find one with a hardwired male USB-C plug in a quick Google search. Though, there are many portable UV-C lamps which would count as USB-C socket to UV-C, so you could add on a USB-C plug-plug adapter and emulate this XKCD with two chained adapters. 172.69.71.69 19:20, 25 August 2021 (UTC)
Am I the only one to think "from C to shining C"? And I'm not even American. 141.101.76.209 20:00, 25 August 2021 (UTC)
It could be as simple as a UV lightbox integrated into a USB EPROM programmer. Have a few in the back erasing while you're programming a few in the front. --Tepples (talk) 22:42, 25 August 2021 (UTC)
It could be that the light flashes on and off for data or something. --198.41.238.51 05:35, 26 August 2021 (UTC)
Regarding getting it backwards the first time: an old engineer I worked with back at the beginning of my career 40 years ago used to say (speaking of serial cable pins, but applicable here also): always just try connecting it at random. That way you'll have a 50% chance of being right. If you try to figure it out first, your odds go way down. Gbisaga (talk) 13:03, 27 August 2021 (UTC)
Germ killing can't be connected to COVID. COVID is a virus, not a germ. --141.101.77.69 15:19, 28 August 2021 (UTC)
- https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/germ Definition 3: : "a microorganism causing disease : a pathogenic agent (such as a bacterium or virus)" Kempsridley (talk) 16:02, 2 September 2021 (UTC)
Is this article still incomplete, or can the tag be removed now? Kempsridley (talk) 16:10, 2 September 2021 (UTC)
Looks like someone's actually prototyping this, using Far-UVC (222nm) which is safe for human skin and eyes Sabik (talk) 01:02, 29 June 2022 (UTC)
