This 24kj capacitor discharge bank is configured for 4500v @ 2400uf and can be charged up using microwave oven transformers. When triggered, it can release all of this stored energy in under a millisecond through a triggered spark gap. Check out the video to understand the magnitude of this thing but please, don't try this at home.
24kj capacitor bank via HackADay
Posted by Jonah Brucker-Cohen |
Sep 24, 2008 06:00 AM
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The maniacal laughter makes me question of this person is really sane enough to be handling such a deadly device. D:
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Did anyone notice that secondary spark? What's up with that?
That doll was amazing. Listen to them giggling like ... well, like any man would, really. Kudos.
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or EMT.
or coroner.
"You were doing what?"
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Having done this on a larger scale in a University Physics lab, I am very surprised it would take a milisecond to discharge this. My guess would have been in the fraction of a microsecond range. Maybe if they have a resistive load in one of the leads, it will slow the discharge rate.
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Obvious cat is obvious?
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last laugh coming soon...
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Love the complete and total lack of safety equipment. That bucket seems to protect (quite poorly) everything but what is right in front of the opening -the guys that built it. This type of behavior is extremely poor. Guys, get a clue, learn to conduct your business safely. If it walks like a jackass and quacks like a jackass....
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Jackasses don't quack.
Quack.
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