Electronics is FUN!!!

[andylawcc]

I am taking DC elec and its total impressive to me.
but are there any word of advice before if I "turn my boat in the middle of river" (is that how you phrase it? my english sucks)

 

[NaughtyusMaximus]

I once burned my tongue by making a circuit with a 9V battery for too long.

It wasn't too fun, although useful (I found out that the battery still held a charge).

 

[AvesPKS]

A couple of buddies of mine and I were clearing out this building about to be torn down, and we came across this old, old, old IBM server. It used 7 1/2" floppy disks, and was larger than two desks put together. But the really cool thing we found in it were 3 .65 farad capacitors...I'll let your minds wander to think of the fun we had with them!

 

[andylawcc]

urr.. .65, is that like big? and you use it as a doorstep?

 

[Zucchini]

I know nothing about capacitors, heh, so what did you do?

 

[Mark R]

Someone showed me a 0.25 F capactior that was taken from the ignition system of a tank engine. The real scary thing about this capacitor was that it could be charged to 500 V !.

It was about the size of a µATX case in case anyone is wondering.

 

[andylawcc]

holy shyt! imagine .65, some dude is selling a .5 in For Sale,
if i can stick one in my mobo....

 

[Demon-Xanth]

650,000 uF (caps are almost always stated in UF) are freaking massive if they can handle high voltage.

 

[Wangel]

7.5 inch floppies? I don't think so. They should be 8 inch floppies. I had hundreds. They are pretty cool to look at now.