Doing dangerous stuff when your bored

Lead Head · March 4th, 2007

10,000 Volt transformer taken from an Oil-burning furnace. Its actually not that dangerous, getting shocks from it is like getting shocks from one of those electronic dog collars, it hurts, but should be deadly unless your like dripping in salt water and press the wire against your chest or something.

So yeah, As you can I was bored and rigged that up. I've even made a jacobs' ladder with it before, I'll try to dig up a video of it.

EDIT:heres the jabob's ladder video http://amdfan12.homelinux.com:1080/r...P1010019-0.mpg

EDIT: Picture down till i have time to resize it

polobunny · March 4th, 2007

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Originally Posted by Lead Head

10,000 Volt transformer taken from an Oil-burning furnace. Its actually not that dangerous, getting shocks from it is like getting shocks from one of those electronic dog collars, it hurts, but should be deadly unless your like dripping in salt water and press the wire against your chest or something

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So yeah, As you can I was bored and rigged that up. I've even made a jacobs' ladder with it before, I'll try to dig up a video of it

Ya, electricity overall is pretty fun, and I think too much people are getting scared of it because they're misinformed. There's risks however, I'm not denying it.

Lead Head · March 4th, 2007

Quote:

Originally Posted by polobunny

Ya, electricity overall is pretty fun, and I think too much people are getting scared of it because they're misinformed. There's risks however, I'm not denying it.

Yes, cannot deny the risks ever, especially with high voltage stuff like that

RangerXLT8 · March 4th, 2007

Don't burn down the house!

**Capper** · March 4th, 2007

Yes, please be careful with electricity, it doesn't take much to seriously damage equipment, or more importantly hurt or even kill yourslef or someone else

Zambini · March 4th, 2007

YouTube - Storm Drain

Now that's bored! :)
(and what we did a couple months ago)

whitecree · March 5th, 2007

I once got hit with 20 KV. Stood my hair on end, made me do a sort of boogaloo, then threw me a good 10 feet right off a roof. Result; one minor electrical burn on left hand, badly sprained knee from falling off the roof.

Then again, a buddy of mine was messing about in the electronics lab in highschool and damn near killed himself with a 2 volt, 1 amp circuit he'd built. Heart stopped, no breathing, prof almost had kittens trying to get him rebooted.

So, yeah, electricity is fun to play with, but like fire, you gotta know what you're doing.

Jokerswild · March 5th, 2007

rebooted

March 4th, 2007	#1
Lead Head Join Date: May 2006 Location: Rhode Island USA Posts: 1,716	Doing dangerous stuff when your bored 10,000 Volt transformer taken from an Oil-burning furnace. Its actually not that dangerous, getting shocks from it is like getting shocks from one of those electronic dog collars, it hurts, but should be deadly unless your like dripping in salt water and press the wire against your chest or something. So yeah, As you can I was bored and rigged that up. I've even made a jacobs' ladder with it before, I'll try to dig up a video of it. EDIT:heres the jabob's ladder video http://amdfan12.homelinux.com:1080/r...P1010019-0.mpg EDIT: Picture down till i have time to resize it Opteron 64 165--1.5GB DDR--ECS KA1 MVP(thanks HL!)--x1800GTO 256MB--Seagate 320GB SATA--Antec 550 Watt--Antec P180 Last edited by Lead Head; March 5th, 2007 at 02:46.

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RangerXLT8 Worker Ant Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: New Jersey Posts: 955	Re: Doing dangerous stuff when your bored Don't burn down the house! Quad Core Xeon 3210@3.22ghz GA-EP35C-DS3R 460FSB x 7 -- 60mm Delta fan on NB 2x2gb Patriot Viper DDR3-1333 Sapphire 4870 512mb GDDR5 2x Raptor 150 ADFD RAID 0--WD320YS RE 16mb Storage Samsung Super WriteMaster 20x DVDRW X-Fi eXtremeGamer w\Logitech Z-2300 Silverstone OP650 54A 12v Rail @50C DamgerDen Torture Rack--MC-TDX--Black Ice GTX240--MCP355 Rev 2--Swiftech MicroRes-- Tygon 3603 3/8"ID Logitech G5 - Logitech LX-710 wireless KB Vista Ultimate 64

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Capper We take both criticism and positive comments very positively Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Las Vegas, NV Posts: 5,850 Blog Entries: 6	Re: Doing dangerous stuff when your bored Yes, please be careful with electricity, it doesn't take much to seriously damage equipment, or more importantly hurt or even kill yourslef or someone else INTEL E8400 // Gigabyte EP45 Extreme // 4GB DDR3-1600 // Palit HD 4870 // Antec 1200 // Seagate 750GB HDD // Zalman CNPS9700 // BFG ES 800W PSU

March 4th, 2007	#6
Zambini Level 2 College Student Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: St. Mere du SantaCruz Posts: 2,026 Blog Entries: 1	Re: Doing dangerous stuff when your bored YouTube - Storm Drain Now that's bored! :) (and what we did a couple months ago)

March 5th, 2007	#7
whitecree Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: deep in the forest, chipping away at some yellow cedar Posts: 173	Re: Doing dangerous stuff when your bored I once got hit with 20 KV. Stood my hair on end, made me do a sort of boogaloo, then threw me a good 10 feet right off a roof. Result; one minor electrical burn on left hand, badly sprained knee from falling off the roof. Then again, a buddy of mine was messing about in the electronics lab in highschool and damn near killed himself with a 2 volt, 1 amp circuit he'd built. Heart stopped, no breathing, prof almost had kittens trying to get him rebooted. So, yeah, electricity is fun to play with, but like fire, you gotta know what you're doing. P4 2Ghz, soyo dragon2 mobo, 3x256 pc3200, radeon 9200 128Mb, pioneer 4x cd/dvd combo, 40G + 80G Hdds, pinnacle firewire, onboard sound, 35W psu

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Jokerswild ButtHead Join Date: Mar 2006 Posts: 5,103	Re: Doing dangerous stuff when your bored rebooted

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