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Harvesting Capacitors for Backyard Munitions

Posted by michael on from the say-cheese dept.

Diabolus writes "This is the tale of a man, a bunch of disposable cameras, and his techniques for harvesting lots of capacitors to build a gauss gun. Insane..." A basic capacitor tutorial is probably in order.

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  1. some other cool things to do w/ capacitors by lingqi · · Score: 5, Interesting

    fry a diode, for example

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  2. Re:Speaking of capacitors... by silverhalide · · Score: 4, Interesting
    A really fun trick is to take one of those 300v guys (make sure it's a low capacitance), charge it up, and toss it to your unsuspecting friend standing across the room. When he catches it... Wham! A afternoon of good fun.

    But those little camera caps are chicken feed. Try on a 2700 Farad Capacitor on for size!