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Blowing stuff up with HV caps

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Kizmo
Tue Jul 03 2007, 07:11PM Print
Kizmo Registered Member #599 Joined: Thu Mar 22 2007, 07:40PM
Location: Northern Finland, Rovaniemi
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 		Have anyone else tried something like this?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BqgxQG1PyfM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=egOda1dKNKU

It was really loud bang (i was suprised how loud..) And there was only about 3000V in there while capacitor could handle 4200V... ;)

Some pics:
http://xs217.xs.to/xs217/07272/laitteisto.JPG
http://xs217.xs.to/xs217/07272/kytkin2.JPG
http://xs217.xs.to/xs217/07272/potun_jaljet.JPG
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GreySoul
Tue Jul 03 2007, 07:53PM
GreySoul Registered Member #546 Joined: Fri Feb 23 2007, 11:43PM
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 		ok... first off, for your chicken stick / charging stick you should use a piece of PVC pipe or something similarly non-conductive. at high voltages wood is a decent conductor. Looks like you live in a humid/moist environment...better safe than sorry.

anyways... I've used bigger caps to blow up smaller caps.... on purpose.

And of course exploding wire, on a tiny scale (120v 10,000mfd)

but no...not a potato.

looks fun, if a bit messy.

-Doug
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Kizmo
Tue Jul 03 2007, 07:57PM
Kizmo Registered Member #599 Joined: Thu Mar 22 2007, 07:40PM
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 		I think dry wood (that piece was stored indoors for years) is safe with 3000V, but not much more!
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Steve Ward
Tue Jul 03 2007, 08:01PM
Steve Ward Registered Member #146 Joined: Sun Feb 12 2006, 04:21AM
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 		I plan on trying similar acts tomorrow during a 4th of july party. Ive got a 5kJ maxwell cap but i will probably limit to 3kJ for safety. I will see about taking pictures and video when possible. Im surprised that little cap is able to blast away the potato so nicely smile.
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Kizmo
Tue Jul 03 2007, 08:14PM
Kizmo Registered Member #599 Joined: Thu Mar 22 2007, 07:40PM
Location: Northern Finland, Rovaniemi
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 		I was suprised too :) You must take lot of pictures and video. I think you could blow away something much bigger, like water melon :D

It's pity that those High-Voltage pulse capacitors are extremely hard to find in here finland, im planning to buy few russian military 5000V(7500V Peak)/40uF caps from ebay.

Edit:

I think that when we are blowing stuff with capacitor, duration of capacitor discharge is more important than capacitors energy. Faster discharge means more current going through potato :)
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Shaun
Tue Jul 03 2007, 10:29PM
Shaun Registered Member #690 Joined: Tue May 08 2007, 03:47AM
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 		Now imagine that defibrillator capacitor is IN a defibrillator, the bolts are two plates... and that potato is your stopped heart...

By the way, what is the smaller capacitor on the right side of the video for?
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Kizmo
Tue Jul 03 2007, 10:56PM
Kizmo Registered Member #599 Joined: Thu Mar 22 2007, 07:40PM
Location: Northern Finland, Rovaniemi
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 		That is microwave capacitor including microwave diode, which is used to rectify MOT's output, cap itself is not used.
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Zyrppa
Thu Jul 05 2007, 03:48PM
Zyrppa Registered Member #609 Joined: Wed Mar 28 2007, 04:18PM
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 		Where did you get those? Bought from finland or somewhere else?
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Nucleophobe
Thu Jul 05 2007, 04:10PM
Nucleophobe Registered Member #108 Joined: Thu Feb 09 2006, 11:44PM
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 		Heh, you're video is showing up places -

http://www.hackedgadgets.com/
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Kizmo
Mon Aug 06 2007, 04:36PM
Kizmo Registered Member #599 Joined: Thu Mar 22 2007, 07:40PM
Location: Northern Finland, Rovaniemi
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Zyrppa wrote ...

Where did you get those? Bought from finland or somewhere else?
I found it from local junkyard (whole defibrillator was there..)
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