On Friday 06 January 2006 23:22, Dave McGuire wrote: >On Jan 6, 2006, at 11:21 PM, DJ Delorie wrote: >>>> My experience is that high voltage plus capacitors yields green >>>> smoke. >>> >>> Then you're either using the wrong capacitors or the right >>> capacitors, depending on the desired result. ;) >> >> We were young. They were the right capacitors :-) >> >> 120VAC into a 25v electrolytic. Poof! Out goes the magic smoke. > > I have a hazy memory involving a large DC power supply and a box of >electrolytics...and vodka. That was quite the geeky party. > > -Dave
And I recall one evening back in the very early 70's when I was sitting at the kitchen table about 11 pm testing an old tube type CB radio that I was redoing the jumpers in to convert it for 12 volt operation. Unforch, the one pair of jumpers I missed on the schematic had left the vibrator (remember those?) and plate transformer still wired for 6 volts. The radio worked great on 12 volts, until one of the filter cans made a dent about 1/2" deep in the plaster ceiling. The kids, trying to get some sleep upstairs, thought I was shooting at them. Messy, took a couple of hours to clean that up. Stinky too. Probably had over 600 volts on 450 volt rated caps. >-- >Dave McGuire "You'll have to be a lot more specific than >'that >Cape Coral, FL girl last night.'" -Ted McFadden -- Cheers, Gene People having trouble with vz bouncing email to me should add the word 'online' between the 'verizon', and the dot which bypasses vz's stupid bounce rules. I do use spamassassin too. :-) Yahoo.com and AOL/TW attorneys please note, additions to the above message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2005 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.
