Capacitor Discharge!!!!!!

[Vickers]

Boooom!!!!!!!

[boguslaw]

BAh!

[Harvey]

This reminds of my nickname and how I got it working as a newbie technician back in the late '70's. "Sparky"

Working on a floating bridge DC motor speed control board that still had the AC neutral connected to the board (hot was switched off), I connected the scope probe to the negative terminal of the filter capacitor - KAAZAAAAAP !!!! yep there was smoke and everything.

Nothing like learning from experience

[Vickers]

Lol Sparky.
Caps are fun. Especially with water. Here are a few good links
Popular Mechanics - Google Books
YouTube - Capacitor70 coil, UNDER WATER!!
Fantastically Dangerous Capacitor-bank Experiments
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pBCl3OdM9Y4

[Web000x]

Very cool

YouTube - High voltage capacitor bank vs watermelon

[Vickers]

Has anyone seen the movie The Heist? With Bobby DeNiro and Ed Norton. They blow open a huge safe by filling it with water and discharging a small explosive inside it.

[Harvey]

Yeah, I know I've seen that movie - but I don't recall the scene that's my memory going, going . . .

. . . what was I saying? oh, yeah - hydraulics.

But I do wonder if that watermelon was expanded from EM expansion or from thermal energy turning the water to steam real fast. There was something about the slow motion of that where a small secondary expansion could be seen right after the first. And the distribution pattern made me wonder if the water was simply trying to find it's place in the magnetic field the the discharge created, and that was what accelerated it all outward - following the field. You see, if it was steam expansion, I don't think we would have seen the pink colorization so readily because it would have been vapor - also, we should have seen effects of heat like actual steam rising off the plate afterward.

So - I wonder

[Vickers]

Hydraulics? Sure.. Why not? So a non compressible fluid (in this case water) will enhance a very small energy discharge by a considerable amount. So output is greater than input? Surely not??? Has Bobby DeNiro solved the energy crisis with this averagely rated mildly entertaining film????

[Harvey]

Hydraulics? Sure.. Why not? So a non compressible fluid (in this case water) will enhance a very small energy discharge by a considerable amount. So output is greater than input? Surely not??? Has Bobby DeNiro solved the energy crisis with this averagely rated mildly entertaining film????

I think the premise was that a safe is generally not made to withstand internal pressure as much as they are build to withstand external attacks. But the principle is that if the charge is able to split a seam somewhere all it needs is something to push against and that's what the water does.

[Vickers]

I wonder if this will work? Hope so. I'm sure Bobby DeNiro wont let me down. LOL.
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[Harvey]

I wonder if this will work? Hope so. I'm sure Bobby DeNiro wont let me down. LOL.
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Let's see . . . A syringe, a switched Magneto . . . some caps . . . Diodes . . . another cap . . . some taped up hidden special 4 wire whichamacallit . . . a transformer with one side disconnected and the the other side going one way to the whichamacallit and the other way to some(no)where. . . A male power plug going to some(no)where . . . A white cylindrical thingamajig with a tube/wire? going to some(no)where . . . and a spark plug.

Oh, and a box of . . . can't read it and don't know the logo.

YES! It will stick to Earth real good

EDIT: When you are No (w)here you are no(w) here.

[Vickers]

LOL Sparky I'm not trying to build a flying saucer here
Its a simple DC voltage doubler with a microwave transformer as ballast.
Box of baking soda for electrolyte.
I fire the caps TDC manually using the plug as a switch.

[CatLady]

Oh Oh....

[Agent.A]

hay, CatLady, you forgot the case of the evil geniues.

[Harvey]

But everyone knows the evil geniuses are insane, and the definition of insane is doing the same thing over and over while expecting different results . . . or wait . . . was that the definition of a scientist


Ok, look - the capacitor blew my fuse into my drink and now I'm Soakin' Fused.