Month: November 2017

High Voltage

5kJ Capacitor Bank Fired at 12kVDC / 3.5kJ Charge

Mads Barnkobby Mads Barnkob0

This is the third experiment with the bank of 35 electrolytic capacitors connected in series. Results are better than the theoretical estimate, which was 6000 A limited by ESR. So getting just over 7000 A is good, but the result …

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Teardown

Teardown of a IBM Blade Server HS22V

Mads Barnkobby Mads Barnkob0

Here I am doing a teardown on a IBM HS22V blade server dated back to 2010. The IBM BladeCenter HS22V blade server supports up to two multi-core Intel Xeon microprocessors and has eighteen memory-module slots, two SSD storage-drives bays, one …

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