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Short Circuit

Theatrical release poster
Directed by John Badham
Produced by David Foster
Lawrence Turman
Written by S.S. Wilson &
Brent Maddock
Starring Ally Sheedy
Steve Guttenberg
Fisher Stevens
Austin Pendleton
G.W. Bailey
Brian MacNamara
Tim Blaney
Music by David Shire
Cinematography Nick McLean
Editing by Frank Morriss
Distributed by TriStar Pictures
Release date(s) May 9, 1986 (USA)
Running time 98 min.
Country USA
Language English
Budget Unknown
Gross revenue $40,697,761 (USA)
Followed by Short Circuit 2
IMDb profile

Short Circuit is a 1986 comedy sci-fi film starring Ally Sheedy and Steve Guttenberg and directed by John Badham. Fisher Stevens, Austin Pendleton, and G. W. Bailey co-star, with Tim Blaney providing the voice of robot "Number 5". Short circuit can refer to: A short circuit is a fault whereby electricity moves through a |circuit in an unintended path, potentially causing overheating, fire or explosion In computer programming, short circuit expression evaluation is another name for minimal evaluation Short Circuit (film), a 1986 film starring Ally Sheedy and... Image File history File links Size of this preview: 404 × 599 pixelsFull resolution‎ (509 × 755 pixels, file size: 50 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) This image is of a poster, and the copyright for it is most likely owned by either the publisher or the creator of the work depicted. ... John Badham (born August 25, 1939, UK) is a film director. ... For other persons named David Foster, see David Foster (disambiguation). ... Template:Wikified Template:Expanded Lawrence Turman (28 November 1926, Los Angeles, CA - present) is a celebrated Hollywood producer who presently serves as the director of the Peter Stark Producing Program at the University of Southern California. ... S.S. Wilson is a writer of cult and mainstream science fiction, and is probably best known for writing (and occasionally directing), with collaborator Brent Maddock, the Tremors film and television series. ... Brent Maddock is a writer/director who has worked on several high profile projects like Short Circuit, Tremors, and Wild Wild West. ... Alexandra Elizabeth Sheedy (born June 13, 1962) is an American screen and stage actress, possibly best known for her roles in the Brat Pack films The Breakfast Club and St. ... Steven Robert Guttenberg (born August 24, 1958) is an American film and television actor. ... Fisher Stevens, born Steven Fisher, (November 27, 1963) in Chicago, Illinois is an American actor, living in New York City. ... Austin Pendleton (born on 27 March 1940 in Warren, Ohio, USA) is an American movie, television and stage actor. ... George W. Bailey (born August 27, 1945 in Port Arthur, Texas) is a veteran stage, television and film character actor. ... Tim Blaney (born in 1959) is an American voice actor. ... David Shire David Shire (born July 3, 1937) is an American songwriter and the composer of stage musicals and film and television scores. ... Frank Morriss, a graduate of Beverly Hills High School, an Emmy award winning film editor[1], was a three sport varsity letterman at Beverly. ... The TriStar Pictures logo from 1993 to the present TriStar redirects here. ... is the 129th day of the year (130th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1986 (MCMLXXXVI) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link displays 1986 Gregorian calendar). ... The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England. ... Short Circuit 2 is a 1988 motion picture, sequel to Short Circuit directed by Kenneth Johnson. ... Comedy film is genre of film in which the main emphasis is on humor. ... Science fiction film is a film genre that uses speculative, science-based depictions of imaginary phenomena such as extra-terrestrial lifeforms, alien worlds, and time travel, often along with technological elements such as futuristic spacecraft, robots, or other technologies. ... Alexandra Elizabeth Sheedy (born June 13, 1962) is an American screen and stage actress, possibly best known for her roles in the Brat Pack films The Breakfast Club and St. ... Steven Robert Guttenberg (born August 24, 1958) is an American film and television actor. ... John Badham (born August 25, 1939, UK) is a film director. ... Fisher Stevens, born Steven Fisher, (November 27, 1963) in Chicago, Illinois is an American actor, living in New York City. ... Austin Pendleton (born on 27 March 1940 in Warren, Ohio, USA) is an American movie, television and stage actor. ... G.W. Bailey (left) and one of The Sunshine Kids George W. Bailey (born August 27, 1945 in Port Arthur, Texas) is a veteran stage, television and film character actor. ... Tim Blaney (born in 1959) is an American voice actor. ... Johnny 5 explores the city. ...


The story revolves around an intelligent and sentient robot named "Number 5" that is worth $11,000,000 (actual total value - $11,002,076 and 17 cents - given in Short Circuit 2). The robot later takes the name "Johnny 5". Intelligence is the mental capacity to reason, plan, solve problems, think abstractly, comprehend ideas and language, and learn. ... Not to be confused with sapience. ... For other uses, see robot (disambiguation). ... Short Circuit 2 is a 1988 motion picture, sequel to Short Circuit directed by Kenneth Johnson. ...


A sequel, Short Circuit 2, was released in 1988. Short Circuit 2 is a 1988 motion picture, sequel to Short Circuit directed by Kenneth Johnson. ...


Taglines:

  • Something wonderful has happened... Number Five is alive!
  • Life is not a malfunction.

Contents

Plot

The movie opens to a montage of a robot being constructed. The robot is the fifth of a quintet of prototype anthropomorphic war machines codenamed SAINT (standing for Strategic Artificially-Intelligent Nuclear Transport), constructed in a joint effort by the U.S. military and Washington-based robotics firm NOVA, using them in a demonstration to hopefully impress the brass enough to fund the creation of more robots. While the spectators are initially impressed with the prowess of these prototypes, the onset of a sudden thunderstorm shuts down the demonstration prematurely, and moves everyone back inside the lab. Once there, demand to meet with the robots' creator, Dr. Newton Crosby, begin to emerge, but he has locked himself up in his office, refusing to hobnob as he has a strong distaste for the military applications his designs are forced to be used for. He's eventually convinced to do so by his associate, Dr. Benjamin Jahrvi (here named Benjamin Jabituya), although he still voices his disgust over NOVA's decision to turn the robots into war machines. Anthropomorphism, also referred to as personification or prosopopeia, is the attribution of human characteristics to inanimate objects, animals, forces of nature, and others. ...


At the lab's loading docks, the prototypes are being checked out for disarmament and deactivation, but a lightning-caused power surge hits the fifth prototype as it's recharging, seemingly without damaging it. However, once the robots are ordered to the disarming station, the shocked SAINT prototype begins to act erratically, bumping into walls, becoming fascinated with turning a light on an off, and following a serving robot whose cord is being dragged behind it, before being slammed from the side by a waste disposal robot and unwittingly loaded onto the back of a flatbed garbage truck. It's disappearance eventually gets noticed, and precautions set up to prevent it from escaping, but by that time, the garbage truck and the robot have already exited the compound's grounds. Soon afterwards, the robot becomes intrigued by a butterfly and follows it off the truck, on its own and on the loose.

A surprised Number 5

Back at the lab, everyone is in a panic; the robot's laser is still armed and fully functional, and with it in the outside world and malfunctioning, there's no telling what it would do. Communications with it turn out to be no good, as it fails to follow with any return or shutdown protocols sent to it, responding with nonsensical gibberish and requests for input. When it's clear the robot isn't going to return, both Nova's head, Dr. Howard Marner, and its chief of security, Lt. Skroeder, agree that the robot needs to be destroyed before it can harm anyone or cause any damage, but Crosby and Ben manage to convince Howard to order its capture intact, believing that its current malfunction presents a tremendous opportunity for research. The technophobic Skroeder, however, isn't convinced, and secretly overrides Marner's orders to his team, instructing them "Whatever it takes to put that stupid contraption out of commission, that's what you do". Image File history File links Number5. ... Image File history File links Number5. ...


The security team has no problem finding the wayward robot, literally running into it while on patrol, but it suddenly scares them as they're crossing the bridge over the Columbia River, causing them to accidentally run it off the bridge and, hence, losing it. The robot manages to save itself by deploying a parachute, which deposits it onto the roof of a meal wagon driven by Oregon native and abandoned animal lover Stephanie Speck, driving home with it unnoticed, though not before it sees her get into an argument with her slimy ex-boyfriend Frank. That night, Stephanie starts hearing strange noises coming from her truck, and - investigating - discovers the robot inside, trashing the vehicle like a curious kid. She at first mistakes it for an alien, and - taking it into her house - agrees to help satisfy its request for input, unknowing just how insatiable its hunger for data is; it easily reads through all the books she has, and when she's unable to give it more input to digest, becomes increasingly destructive as it tests out its new knowledge. The carnage is eventually abated when Stephanie gives it the remote to her television, allowing it to watch as many programs as it wants, though she is surprised when it's still watching when she wakes up. Her attempts to turn the TV off are thwarted by the robot's remote antenna, but she's charmed by its flawless impersonations of the advertisements, and manages to convince it to go outside and watch the sunrise.


However, once outside, the robot is startled by Stephanie's dog Beasley and is knocked off the patio and into a chicken coop, unharmed. Its post-landing position, though, gives Stephanie a clear look at its manufacture placard, revealing to her quite clearly that it's a robot and not an alien. Disgusted with her own stupidity for not realizing it sooner, she calls NOVA and lets them know about the robot, before explaining to the robot what's going to happen to it. The robot seems to understand in typical robot fashion, until its attention is turned to a jumping grasshopper, which it attempts to imitate. An untimely distraction by Stephanie causes the robot to inadvertently crush the insect, and when it attempts to ask her to "reassemble" it, she's forced to explain the nature of death to it. Not understanding at first, the robot compares death with disassembly, before panicking in sudden, horrified revelation, running off and commandeering Stephanie's truck, driving away with her in tow. After a few minutes of driving, Stephanie manages to stop the truck before the robot drives it off a cliff, then angrily confronts it about its sudden change of behavior. To her confused shock, the robot explains that it is, in fact, alive, and is afraid of being disassembled by NOVA, believing it to be the same as death for it.


Soon after, Crosby and Benjamin show up, bringing one of the remaining four prototypes against Marner's better judgment, as protection against the robot should it turn violent against them. With the robot too scared to come out of the truck, Stephanie attempts to go out and appease the two NOVA scientists, explaining to them what she was told, but she's not believed. Frustrated, she convinces the robot to come out into the open and explain its standing directly, but it is interrupted by the sudden appearance of Skroeder and his team, armed to the teeth with the intention of destroying the prototype. They take several shots at it, managing to damage it somewhat but also provoking a counter-attack, the robot blowing up several sailboats and yachts nearby in an attempt to deter them. It is eventually overwhelmed, though, and only a timely intervention by Crosby prevents it from being destroyed, the scientist shouting that he has "clearance" for the robot, and is able to shut it down manually. Once he does, the robot is loaded into his and Ben's NOVA van, to the consternation of both Stephanie and Skroeder, though Stephanie is promised to be kept up to date on the robot's condition.


On the way back to NOVA, the robot unexpectedly reawakens, though it is paralyzed from the neck down. Using its "eyelids" as makeshift tweezers, it secretly manages to drop a socket wrench onto a button on its torso, rebooting it. However, its recent firefight has damaged its left arm to the point of becoming useless, so it detaches it and sets it aside, before replacing it with a new one from the van's supply of spare parts. The dead arm then clatters onto the floor, alerting Benjamin and the guard assigned to drive the robot back to its reactivation. The guard attempts to ward it off with a pistol, but the gun is quickly stolen and crumpled like a batch of Play-Doh, forcing him and Ben to stop the van and abandon it, allowing the robot to drive off with it and leaving them behind. Shortly afterwards, the robot discovers it's being tracked by a homing beacon attached to it; thinking quickly, it removes the beacon and tosses it onto the back of a passing truck, throwing NOVA off its trail for a while. Benjamin and the guard are eventually picked up by Crosby, but by that time - frustrated with their lack of success in capturing the robot, and Crosby's insistence on recovering the robot for study - Marner takes Crosby and Benjamin off the search and gives Skroeder free reign to destroy the robot on sight. Also, Marner is forced to put out a $25,000 reward for anyone who can give them the location of the robot. Green Play-Doh with can and accessory toy Play-Doh is a commercial plastic modeling compound similar in texture to bread dough that has been sold as a childrens toy around the world for a half century. ...


Meanwhile, Stephanie has become a local celebrity, embarrassingly having a news crew show up to get the story of her brush with the NOVA robot just as she's about to take a bath. Though she blows them off with a minimum of answers, Frank - who's watching the news cast - is convinced that she knows where the robot is, and is determined to get the information out of her for the reward. After the news crew has left, Stephanie's bath is interrupted again, this time by the robot, who manages to charm her into letting it stay for the night, despite her better judgment that it would be dangerous for them both if it did. Although the robot's able to take her mind off the danger for a little while with a dance, her insight is well-founded, as Frank reappears the next morning, barging into her house demanding to see the robot. He finds it in the kitchen, (vainly) making breakfast for Stephanie, but is tricked into revealing his plans to it, causing it to run outside. Frank pursues it, but can't find it, until he notices his car is missing; in the short amount of time its escape gave it, the robot has completely disassembled the vehicle. Furious, Frank attempts to attack the robot with his rifle, but all his shots are blocked, and with a few well-aimed laser blasts, is disarmed and depantsed, humiliating him into leaving, though not before he threatens to call Nova and the cops. Taking this threat seriously, Stephanie and the robot leave her house.


At the same time this is going on, Crosby manages to convince Ben into helping him steal a van to continue the search for the robot, only to have their plans anticipated and thwarted by Marner. Crosby, though, manages to call Marner's bluff about shooting them should they press the issue, allowing them to escape with the van. They have no luck in finding the robot, though, until Howard gives them a chance to redeem themselves in his eyes by having Crosby talk with Stephanie alone; unable to run any longer, both she and the robot are convinced that the only way to keep it safe is to convince its creators that it is alive, and have chosen Crosby to be their liaison, taking advantage of his dogged interest in the robot's apparent "malfunction". Everything seems to go well, at first, with Crosby at least agreeing to take a passive look at the robot and hear it out, but unbeknown to them, Skroeder has secretly used the meeting as a trap to lure the robot in for destruction by three of the other prototypes. The robot is able to overcome its "brothers", however (reprogramming them to reenact old Three Stooges skits, in the process), and rescue Stephanie from being captured by Skroeder himself. Skroeder pursues, but is evaded, bringing down the ire of Crosby for setting him up, and giving Stephanie the false impression that he was in on the trap. The Three Stooges were an American vaudeville and comedy act of the mid 20th century best known for their numerous short subject films. ...


Stephanie's truck eventually runs out of gas in the desert, leaving them stranded. Stephanie, however, is too upset at Crosby's presumed betrayal to care, telling the robot to "burn their butts off with your laser" if they're confronted with any more NOVA personnel. The robot, however, refuses to harm them (having taken a stand against such violence due to its distaste for "disassembly" and death), and is still convinced that Crosby can still be converted, so without her knowledge, it sneaks off and kidnaps him, bringing him back to Stephanie's location. With no other choice, Crosby agrees to examine the robot and test it, learning that it had rewired itself to the point where it shouldn't even be functioning at all (but is refrained from fixing the "problem"), and that it has a mischievous and creative side (after it ties his shoelaces together and describes what it sees in an impromptu Rorschach test). He is only convinced of the robot's assessment that it's alive after it laughs at a joke he tells it, proving that it has the "spontaneous emotional response" needed to claim sentience.


This revelation comes too little, too late, unfortunately, as NOVA closes in on their position with military support, demanding that the robot be surrendered to them. Despite their best efforts, Stephanie and Crosby are unable to convince them to hear them out, and are forcefully removed from the van's vicinity by Skroeder's men against Marner's orders. Suddenly, the robot launches out of the van's back (where it was hiding) and makes a mad dash for freedom, dodging the soldiers' bullets easily. It looks like it's about to make it, when a military helicopter appears, and - after several attempts - nails it with a rocket, destroying it. The feeling among the group is mixed; Skroeder and his team are elated that the robot is finally gone, while Stephanie and Crosby are horrified at the loss of their friend, and Marner is disappointed that the entire SAINT project is now completely dead.


The movie ends with Crosby and Stephanie driving the van down a lonely road, questioning where to go from there; Stephanie is too shaken up by the entire event to go home, while Crosby has quit his job and is considering taking up some land left to him by his parents in Montana. To their shock, however, a third voice chimes in, agreeing with Crosby's decision; it's the robot, who had managed to dupe the military and NOVA personnel by using the spare parts in the van to build a copy; it was the copy that was destroyed, thus convincing everyone it was "killed", instead. Relieved and grateful at their friend's cleverness, Crosby makes the decision final, believing it to be the best way to keep the robot hidden and allow it to soak up as much input as it wants. Stephanie, however, is unsure, not willing to leave her animals behind, until she hears how much land he was given (40 acres), and starts to debate with him on whether he likes animals, and which kinds. As they're debating, the robot takes it up on itself to take over the driving, using that time to come up with a name for itself, as it feels its original designation (SAINT prototype #5) to be "stupid". It eventually settles on "Johnny 5", taking inspiration from a song on the radio it heard during its escape.


Production

According to the commentary in the DVD, Johnny 5 was the most expensive part of the movie, requiring several different versions to be made for different sequences. Almost everything else in the movie was relatively low-cost, allowing them to pump as much money as they needed into the robot character.


Most of the arm movements of Johnny 5 were controlled by a "telemetry suit," a metallic skeleton carried on the puppeteer's upper torso. Each joint in the suit had a separate sensor, allowing the puppeteer's arm and hand movements to be transferred directly to the machine. He was also voiced in real-time by his puppeteer, the director believing that it provided for a more realistic interaction between the robot and the other actors than putting in his voice in post-production (though a few of his lines were redubbed later).


During Stephanie's impromptu news interview, you can see a cameo appearance by director John Badham as the news cameraman.


Inspiration

It was thought that this movie was inspired by E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, though some believe it was also used as a defiant change from most other 'living robot' movies of the time (in which the 'living' robot was originally designed for benign purposes, but becomes murderous upon gaining 'life'). This is ironic in the fact that, originally, it's also rumored that the movie had a story similar to that of The Terminator. According to DVD commentary, however, the movie's inspiration is far more complex; originally, the idea for a feature-length robot movie was proposed in lieu of the director's success with a short school tutorial video about making a presentation starring a robot. While studying other movies with robot characters in them to get a feel of how such a movie should be made, the director noticed how in each one of them, the robots were treated as if 'living' machines were the norm. Instead of repeating that time-honored cliché, the director decided to take a more realistic approach to his film, and explore the obvious question raised by the other films: what if a robot really did come alive? How would people really react? The natural assumption would be that no one would believe it for a second, hence the attitude by the movie's antagonists towards Number 5. The story is also reminiscent of Robot AL-76 Goes Astray, a 1941 short story by Isaac Asimov, in which a tightly programmed robot is lost and finds itself in an unfamiliar environment which it can't understand. Image File history File links Emblem-important. ... For the Atari 2600 video game based on the movie, see E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (Atari 2600). ... This article is about the first film in the series. ... Robot AL-76 Goes Astray is a humourous science fiction short story by Isaac Asimov, originally published in Amazing Stories, February 1942, and included in the collection The Rest of the Robots. ...


Video Game

A video game developed by Ocean Software for ZX Spectrum[1], Commodore 64[2] and Amstrad CPC[3] was also made based on the movie. It featured two parts, one arcade adventure where Johnny 5 had to escape from the lab, and one action part where Johnny 5 runs across the countryside avoiding soldiers and bunnies. The second part looped indefinitely, and was actually impossible to complete. The Ocean logotype had an often prominent placement on the box art. ... The ZX Spectrum is an 8-bit personal home computer released in the United Kingdom in 1982 by Sinclair Research Ltd. ... C-64 redirects here. ... The Amstrad CPC was a series of 8-bit home computers produced by Amstrad during the 1980s and early 1990s. ...


Sequel

The movie has gained a cult following, and spawned a sequel, Short Circuit 2. There was a script for a possible third movie written in 1989 and rewritten in 1990, but it was found unsatisfactory by the producers, and the project was subsequently scrapped in early pre-production. This article does not discuss cultist groups, personality cults, or cult in its original sense of religious practice. See cult (disambiguation) for more meanings of the term cult. A cult following is a group of fans devoted to a specific area of pop culture. ... Short Circuit 2 is a 1988 motion picture, sequel to Short Circuit directed by Kenneth Johnson. ...


Remake

Rumor has got out that a remake of Short Circuit is in production and set for release in 2008[4].


End credits

Johnny 5 meets an Omnibot 2000 in Short Circuit (1986)

One feature in the first movie is the ending credit sequence which features snippets of scenes cut from the final product, a gimmick that predated the explosion of director's cuts and deleted scenes DVD options of recent years. The scenes shown in the credits include an extended SAINT demonstration sequence (which would have included the robots flying remote-controlled airplanes), an encounter with a white commercially-made Omnibot 2000, and a close encounter with 'death' at a scrapyard (these last two were from a cut sequence set between Number 5's theft of the Nova van he was being carted back in by Ben, and his second arrival at Stephanie's house; in that sequence, the Nova van would have run out of gas near the scrapyard, and is forced to abandon it and look for another suitable mode of transportation. The Omnibot in the former of the two scenes would have belonged to the children of the scrapyard owner, who were to frighten Number 5 away with their comparisons between him and the Omnibot). Image File history File links ShortCircuitJohnnyFive. ... Image File history File links ShortCircuitJohnnyFive. ... An Omnibot 2000 from 1985 in the cover of a book from 2005 Omnibot MkII Instead of ejecting the program tape, the entire cassette deck ejected itself The Omnibot 2000 was the most advanced of the Omnibot line The Omnibot was a toy robot manufactured by Tomy in the mid... A directors cut is a specially edited version of a film, and less often TV series, music video, commercials or video games, that is supposed to represent the directors own approved edit. ... Deleted scene is a commonly-used term in the entertainment industry, especially the film and television industry, which usually refers specifically to scenes removed from or replaced by another scene in the final cut, or version, of a film (including television serials). ... An Omnibot 2000 from 1985 in the cover of a book from 2005 Omnibot MkII Instead of ejecting the program tape, the entire cassette deck ejected itself The Omnibot 2000 was the most advanced of the Omnibot line The Omnibot was a toy robot manufactured by Tomy in the mid...


Trivia

  • Stephanie's house is located at 197 Hume Avenue, Astoria, Oregon.
  • Astoria, Oregon, the location of Stephanie's house, is also the location of The Walsh's house in The Goonies.
Macintosh 512K with a color screen
  • When Newton is sent to hobnob he is programming using a Macintosh 512K, which appears to have a color display. In reality though, only black and white Macintoshes were available at the time.
  • The ZIP code given for the fictional location of Damon, Washington is 98615. This would put it in Southern Washington. However, this ZIP code could not be assigned to Damon as it does not fall alphabetically between Chinook (98614) and Cougar (98616). It would likely be assigned 98618 instead.
  • In the scene when Newton is playing the keyboard for one of the robots, his tie is tied and untied during scene changes; a continuity error.
  • Short Circuit was referenced in the English translation of Dirge of Cerberus -Final Fantasy VII- when the fifth model of the robot Cait Sith, previously thought destroyed, is discovered still working. If you shoot the corresponding memory capsule and finish the game, you can access the event viewer which has a scene named 'Number Five is Alive!'.
  • Some of the computerized sound effects heard in the film were also heard in WarGames, another Badham film.
  • A scene from the stop-motion sketch-comedy program Robot Chicken likely parodies Short Circuit. The scene features a series of five robots created by a mad scientist, the fifth of which (denoted by a large "5" on its chest) is struck by lightning, is brought to life, and goes on an unintentional killing spree. Also, a 1986 horror film, Chopping Mall features a somewhat similar concept (although being called Dawn Of The Dead with Robots instead of zombies), where security robots are struck by lightning when the mall is closed, causing them to malfunction and go on a killing spree within the mall, finding and killing a group of partying teenagers who stayed in the mall after closing.
  • While Johnny 5 is listing off names of animals, he lists a raven and then says "Nevermore"-- a reference to Poe's "The Raven".

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Short circuit - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (811 words)
A short circuit (sometimes abbreviated to short or s/c) is an accidental low-resistance connection between two nodes of an electrical circuit that are meant to be at different voltages.
Although usually the result of a fault, there are cases where short circuits are caused intentionally, for example, for the purpose of voltage-sensing crowbar circuit protectors.
In mains circuits, short circuits are most likely to occur between two phases, between a phase and neutral or between a phase and earth (ground).
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Short circuits are also important on high-frequency transmission lines where shorted stub lines, one-quarter wavelength long and shorted at the remote end, are used to design matching sections of the transmission lines which also act as tuning elements.
A short circuit (sometimes abbreviated to short) is an accidental low-resistance connection between two nodes of an electrical circuit that are at different voltages.
Although usually the result of a fault, there are cases where short circuits are caused intentionally, for example, for the purpose of circuit bending and in voltage-sensing crowbar circuit protectors.
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