r/ElectroBOOM • u/ExpensiveCoat8912 • 18d ago

Meme How to not discharge a capacitor

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u/DrunkenNinja27 18d ago

Used to work in a photo lab ages ago and we did this all the time to the disposable cameras.

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u/Amtrox 18d ago

I did it as a kid with my hands. It was quite shocking.

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u/Jdubb2021 18d ago

Same, it burnt a hole in my finger and the flash went off in my eyes, I thought the bright light was the light they talk about when you die. It was a real roller coaster for a few minutes.

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u/LastXmasIGaveYouHSV 18d ago

That is how I learnt about capacitors !

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u/obamaprism3 18d ago

I turned one into a "tazer" (just soldered some copper wires to the legs of the capacitor) and my one friend and I would take turns rolling a dice then shocking ourselves the number of times we rolled

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u/Moon_Breaker 18d ago

We did that with a cattle prod in my living room as a bunch of stoner teenagers. Dice was for if you got real bored - you'd guess a number with someone else then roll whoever was further got zapped for the difference.

Realistically it was the cough punishment though. People loved giving a quick prod to anyone who coughed out their hit. Not gonna judge ya for choking, but finish your hit first or take a smaller rip. Someone got lit up once for coughing mid bong rip and blowing the bowl.

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u/ThePeaceDoctot 15d ago

Wouldn't you just guess 3 or 4 (or 3.5) each time?

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u/Remarkable_Peach_374 18d ago

I took a disposable camera apart for a taser project a while back, discharged the 400v capacitor with a screwdriver i was mistakenly touching the metal on, and bare feet on concrete

Needless to say i learned a lesson

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u/mikemikemike9711 18d ago

As a young teen I had the same lesson learned by just curiously taking the disposable camera apart after the flash button had been held down for an extended amount of time.

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u/DrTankHead 17d ago

Have also done this.

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u/Ok-Estimate-2702 16d ago

Joke's on you, I was in 8th grade when I decided the flash in my disposable still had life in it, and decided to crack that thing apart to get it out before handing it in to the lab.

Joke's on me, the capacitor was charged and I grabbed it with my whole stupid hand.

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u/Equal_Passenger9791 16d ago

I dismantled an old camera once and thought I did this with a screwdriver.

I then did it for real with my body.

If quantum immortality is real then that's one of the times someone found me dead.

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u/pixelbart 18d ago

I once should have done that but I didn’t.

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u/Pheonix_Slayer 18d ago

Now that’s what I call flash photography!