A pulse discharge with a peak current of 50,000 Ampere is send through a iPod Nano 2nd generation 4GB Pink model. This is a belonging of my back-then girlfriend, now spouse ♥. I did try to explode this on a earlier occasion in 2014. Video should be somewhere on the channel in pulse power playlist […]
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A pulse discharge with a peak current of 50,000 Ampere is send through a Nokia 6230 mobile phone. A mobile phone from the era of indestructible handsets, a piece of electronics that would never let you down and yet here it is to die in a fiery explosion of hot-as-the-sun plasma discharge! This pulse discharge
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This is a Merlin Gerin Masterpact M16N1 Circuit Breaker rated at 1600A/690VAC (Roughly 1.9MW 3-phase energy!) here is it tested against a C10A 1P+N MCB to withstand a 50kA short-circuit current from a 2500uF/2kV energy discharge capacitor! The capacitor used is a Maxwell Energy Discharge capacitor that you can read about here Some product series
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The 60N60 IGBT full-bridge exploded during a small test of playing MIDI on the DRSSTC. I upgraded it to a SKM200GB123 bricks. DRSSTC IGBT explosions are no joke, 12 days before a show. Can you guess the song that was played? DRSSTC IGBT explosion is properly a bit much to say. It was a silent
Tesla coil DRSSTC IGBT explosion. 12 days before a show, panic! Read More »
This is a introduction to the differences between AC and DC fuses. I also use a high voltage / current discharge capacitor for a destructive test of the two difference fuses. You should also check out how ingenious high voltage fuses are made in this article Teardown of a medium voltage fuse (7200 V /
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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 is still a little tame when it comes to action. These tests had the bank
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For now all details during development and testing can be found on the forum thread: https://highvoltageforum.net/index.php?topic=25.0 35 capacitors in series, each 450VDC/1000uF, for a 48 uF bank with a voltage rating of 14000VDC, making it able to store roughly 5kJ.
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