Capacitors are Fun

    See www.friday.com/bbum/2007/03/27/cause-splosions-are-cool/ for instructions.

    The spark is the strobe.

    Comments and faves

    1. bjepson, rodbotic, Bolsoman, timballas, and 2 other people added this photo to their favorites.

    2. chuckwolfe0 (63 months ago | reply)

      Wow. Absolutley amazing.

    3. Ric e Ette (63 months ago | reply)

      Hmm... you're giving me ideas... :-)

    4. kingdesmond1337 (63 months ago | reply)

      :)

      I was just about to take apart some capacitors from a camera actually. It was to build a mini coilgun. I'll have to definitely do this now.

    5. PacoBell (63 months ago | reply)

      What? No gloves? Those sparks look like they'd sting a bit on your exposed hands =/

    6. akent and trendzilla added this photo to their favorites.

    7. bbum (63 months ago | reply)

      Nahh... this event happens in milliseconds. You don't even feel the sparks. The most impactful sub-event is the loud popping sound accompanied by the flash of light.

    8. dclement007 (63 months ago | reply)

      visually explosive!

    9. iFjord (63 months ago | reply)

      ** This was voted a hit from Hit, Miss or Maybe **

    10. ​eyebex (63 months ago | reply)

      This was voted a miss from Hit, Miss or Maybe

    11. Max-Zip2 (63 months ago | reply)

      ** This was voted a Hit from Hit, Miss or Maybe **

      Nice effect on this shot.

    12. Mayazl (63 months ago | reply)

      Amazing!

    13. bascht, Chuckumentary, jim212jim, and minimals added this photo to their favorites.

    14. flickr-clicker (59 months ago | reply)

      thats really amazing

    15. ! Polyhedra ! and cnflikt added this photo to their favorites.

    16. Xeontory (18 months ago | reply)

      You are invited to add this wonderful photo to
      digital age
      Gallery of Electronics
      pool!
      Please Invite other electronics related photos to this Group too !

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