hat off to mbcx0tjb as you appear to most certianly be the physics geek! I meerly did A-Level (the real ones) Any chance of lending me your magnet, got some ideas for mischief (c;
You bring a truck, and lets get this baby outta here! I've got some lock in amps that we can steal lcd's off too. Stealing physics crap rocks
p155 is piss, bit like 80085 (remember back in the days of calculators in school?) didnt know if it would be filtered
awwww, i'm only 35.89744% - Major Geek. thought i'd be more. I've done that thing where you reach around the back of a pc to touch the exposed psu prongs, so i guess i got 240v. My psu has been really erratic ever since.
Do you think they'll accept an IOU? (As in I owe Manchester Uni Physics Department 1 Electro Magnet...) 35.89744%.... It's not bad really, I would have expected more given you physic stance, but then there weren't really any questions along the lines on 'how far away are you from the nearest liquid nitrogen cooled electro magnet... (or other suitably geeky science 'stuff')'
Read the sig for geekage I can tell you, christmas tree lights can giv you a hell of a shock if ur not careful
73.37278% - Geek God I need to get out more, Or forget some stuff... I think I was about 8 when I found that the capacitors inside a flash camera could give you a hell of a jolt... AND I liked it...
Get the _circuit_ from inside teh camera, without the capacitors - that burns like buggery because it's high frequency, not a one-off jolt like the caps.
It's the volts that jolt and the current that kills. Did anyone else blow up electrolytic caps (or is it just me that's twisted) from old tellys by reversing the polarity on them from a nice fully charged car battery? That smell off the paper electrolyte hums......phewww!!
Did I ever? I think i've tried blowing up every single type of electrical component there is, or at least that I have... great fun! I think you can actually get them to explode by passing a much higher voltage across them - eventually the current will jump the gap and the thing will explode (c:
What exposed PSU prongs??? There shouldn't be any unless somehow you've used the wrong kind of lead and plugged the mains connector into the connector that's meant to be for your monitor??
AC blows up caps real nice. another fun thing is to get a tantalium cap and hook it up backwards to a 9V or 1.5V battery....very lovely stench as it slowly burns. Yes, a lot of my fun is destorying stuff. I'm taking an M-80 to a PSU soon.
Im only 14 Im 14 and ive had heap i muck around with inverter OWWW that stings and one time my had brushed on a 5cm captitor and man it left a black line on it
My tale Hot summer's day, machine by my side, with all sides off (It's a fully-loaded full tower now, but at the time it was all stuffed into a mini-tower case... just... Image of current setup at http://www.lurghi.net/case.jpg ) Anyways, it was hot in there, so I had everything open, including the PSU, and I was leaning on the side of the case, my (left) arm on the top and my hand hanging limp inside, at which point I shifted and my middle finger touched on one of those BIG A/C side capacitors, which was running at 240vAC/50Hz, giving a flattened spike of around 200VDC pulsed. OUCH! About 100ms later the RCD circuit breaker threw, though it felt like an eternity, and my arm was shaking and stung all day.
I have also done the finger in the PSU thing, touched an electric fence, one hell of a jolt about what kills you have forgotten the heat the resistance of the body makes wich may burn you badly if you touch bad wires.
I've only ever got a shock from a 3.5mm jack lead which i took out the back of my computer - i didn't realise the amp it was connected to was switched on. It was only a little tingly shock, but i was quite suprised at how much i felt it from such a small thing.
That's where a nice big fat bench PSU and an electronics class with a teacher that doesn't care comes in handy I put just about every component I got my hands on across the terminals, slowly ramping up voltage/current to see what sort of mess I could make ... Stopped doing it when I hit a few mates with capacitor-shrapnel (they weren't hurt, but it scared the hell out of most of them to have a super-hot piece of metal flying at their arms ).... Of course, I grew up then and managed to fry bigger and more expensive pieces of kit BTW: Spiral Architect: You'd be surprised how much voltage runs through speaker cables...
well, they say the simplest pleasures are the best, or something like that.... can't deny it isn't fun (for a guy at least) to see something go BOOM
