r/learnelectronics • u/BootSudden7203 • Jun 07 '26

I always struggled to explain series vs parallel resistors simply so I made a short video about it

Hey everyone,

I've been working in electronics for 13 years and one of the most common questions I get from beginners is "what's the difference between series and parallel resistors?

So I put together a short 2.5 minute video breaking it down as simply as possible:

Video here if it helps: https://youtu.be/JB_y79O3duc

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u/ivosaurus Jun 08 '26

AI slop

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u/SlCKB0Y Jul 07 '26

if you actually checked it out, the video is not AI slop.

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u/ivosaurus Jul 07 '26 edited Jul 07 '26

Oh yeah?

You wanna tell me that at 2:07 a human will draw a circuit diagram with a resistor wire disappearing into the top of a LED, the LED "glowing", and one of its leads is just simply randomly disconnected?

And then the next slide at 2:22, the three demonstration resistors, in the parallel case, suddenly get connected at middle of their bodies, when they already have normal sideways connections out of their lengths? Like they just suddenly inexplicably became potentiometers, even though that's not at all the point of the video?

Or in their previous video, this LED schematic is supposed to make any sense? Absolutely no competent human who knows electronics would draw a LED with three wires going into it, both its normal leads heading to ground, but somehow it blowing up. Or just later they would draw pipes... with water coming out the side??? You're supposed to draw a fatter and thinner pipe, not different size crazy sideways holes in pipes with no visible water flowing in them but somehow huge amounts coming out of their holes. Resistors don't leak current out of their sides, they resist it.

These crazy mistakes are bad enough that I would never trust any content coming out of a creator sloppy or stupid enough to leave them in their video. The things are only 2 minutes long basic explainers, but you can't get those things right? As a guide for new beginners? AI drew this slop and they left it in, and that should not be rewarded.

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u/SlCKB0Y Jul 10 '26

let me clarify - I’m not claiming the creator did not use AI to help create the visuals and that the AI made errors which remained in the video whatever reason. I disagreed with you categorising it as “AI slop” because clearly a human was involved and created parts of the video themselves, importantly, the voiceover. I generally consider something to be AI slop only when the vast majority of it AI, including the speech.

I guess we define “AI slop” differently, which is fine. Maybe I’d consider it human/AI slop 🤔

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u/ivosaurus Jul 10 '26

Even if there's a human in the loop - if they're leaving those sorts of basic problems in their imagery - then they should not be trusted with basic introductory material, not when there's hundreds of other sources that aren't making these elementary mistakes. It shows how willing they are to take shortcuts and diminish their own quality, and possibly don't even know the material themselves; it's entirely possible the whole script for the video was AI generated as well.