To: Antonello
“I always thought it was so the practical joker in the class (why are you all looking at ME?) could turn electrolytic capacitors into fircrackers by using a suicide cord and a wall outlet.”
They took all the fun out of when they started scoring the tops of the cans with an X. Now they just go “PHHHSSSS”.
15 posted on
11/20/2011 10:52:07 PM PST by
Nik Naym
(It's not my fault... I have compulsive smartass disorder.)
To: Nik Naym
Not if you blob some solder on the top of the can first. Just sayin’.
17 posted on
11/20/2011 10:57:14 PM PST by
Antonello
(Oh my God, don't shoot the banana!)
To: Nik Naym
You can still get an HV capacitor, preferably one with a good dielectric such as oil-filled, charge it up to a few hundred volts (or more!), and leave it out on the control room desk.
Another virtue of DC.
≤}B^)
47 posted on
11/21/2011 4:21:27 AM PST by
Erasmus
(I love "The Raven," but then what do I know? I'm just a poetaster.)
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