quick question ... does the following make sense from an electrical point of view ... (Note: this is referring to energy building in someone’s body in a dark fantasy) ‘It inched up her spine one vertebrae at a time, like a circuit of diodes coming to life.’ I want to make sure I’m using diode correctly. Thanks V.
Capacitors can store a good amount of energy charge in a circuit bank, and then rapidly release the energy when needed. The bigger the capacitors are, the more 'bang' for your buck, and the more energy that can be released in a small amount of time. Though I suppose if you mean a one way transfer of energy towards an area, then I think so. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diode
The main thing with diodes is that they're completely passive so they don't really "come to life" (except if they're LEDs) - they don't "do" anything they're just one way gates. In general you won't see an electric circuit come alive sequentially unless there are electronics - or electromechanics - involved.
I would suggest "relays" rather than "diodes." They are sequential, in that one needs to activate before the next one can, and so on.
Thank you. I read all I could but couldn’t find the answer i was looking for. I understood the diodes would allow energy to flow one way whilst preventing it from flowing in the opposite direction, but didn’t know if they would actually light up, and in a sequence.
Depending on the diode, this can be an extremely complicated answer, but in all likelihood, diode is the wrong electrical component choice here. Sure, you could use LED diodes, but that's not really what they are for. More likely to be flip-flopping bridge circuits. Relays would work, I guess, but that's going to depend on whether you mean series or parallel or series-parallel circuits, and again, they don't really light up. They do click though. What would actually be happening most likely is that the as relays energize, they start up components if the relays work in series on components "coming to life" (motors, fans, lights, valves) and are time-delayed from the next series relay in the component task list. To be honest, you may be better off with a description that doesn't rely on technical electrical concepts haha.
Personally I like using imagery that is both familiar and slightly unnatural to give a sense of power - but power in my stories is always familiar and slightly unnatural so it fits ^^ Something like : It climbed up her spine one vertebrae at a time, like waterfall cascading up to his neck
Reminds me of cascade voltages. If you chain diode bridge circuits, you can create a cascade voltages in the right configuration that builds up to massive voltages. That's how high tension tanks work in electron microscopy. It would be cool to design a cascade voltage circuit up her spine that looped in a few LaB6 Crystal's or high tension LEDs to create the effect of increasing beams of light beaming out ofher spine as they climb the surface.
