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Harvesting Capacitors for Backyard Munitions

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. Re:IANAL, but.. by benjamindees · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Don't worry, either this guy hasn't brushed up on his metric prefixes lately, or somehow capacitors have become fantastically powerful in the past year. Assuming no alien-technology, it would require a pickup-bed full of these capacitors to even come close to weapons the army currently has.

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    "I assumed blithely that there were no elves out there in the darkness"