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- Written and uploaded by: The King of Roo
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- So, you want to make your parents proud; show them
- that you want to be an electrical engineer! Well, here are
- a few tricks that will thrill mom & dad!
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- CAPACITORS
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- These little buggers can do more damage than most
- objects their size. Let's start with the basics.
- Electrolytics: These are the little capacitors (usually blue
- or black in color) with the + symbols going down the side. The
- ones you find inside transistor radios usually are quite harm-
- less. But, you can find caps of mammoth proportions inside
- computer power supplies or your brothers expensive stero amp.
- Ok, what do you do with it?
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- Electrolitics have one drawback; they don't like reverse
- polarity, and will breakdown when reverse biased. A small cap
- may just fizzle, smoke a little and die. But if you take a
- large cap, (100,000 uF and up) you can create a nice explosion.
- Don't do this at close range. Very large caps can be lethal
- when they go. Try connecting 120V across them and watch those
- suckers go. By the way, if you don't like somebody, charge them
- up PROPERLY and toss the charged cap at some unsuspecting
- person. They will get a shock they won't soon forget!
- Caps that you find inside large machines i.e. A/C units will
- also detonate, but they have to be short circuited. This is only
- for the very brave and very stupid!
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- THERMISTORS
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- These are also found inside power supplies, and those transient
- voltage outlet strips you get at any computer store. Thermistiors
- when subjected to very large voltage spikes, tend to explode and
- shatter, so be sure you stay far away if you hook up a bunch in
- parallel.
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- Many people have tried to build shock type wands with
- automobile coils..... while this does produce a high voltage,
- it's a cumbersome way to do it. A better idea would be to
- use the flyback transformer one finds in the back of any TV set.
- These are much easier to operate, consume less power, and give
- you more shock for your dollar.
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- That's all for now...... stay tuned to future articles.
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- By the way, there are no plugs for boards at ther end of this
- article
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