Glen K9STH Zook wrote:
> When I was in high school, the physics teacher decided to have a one-semester
> "electronics" class. There were parts from all sorts of discarded television
> sets around. A couple of the less bright students discovered that if you
> plugged the electrolytic capacitors into an AC outlet that in several seconds
> the capacitor would explode. For several days thereafter, one of those
> students would go into a classroom (when it was empty) or to a secluded part
> of the hallway and plug a capacitor into an outlet. The results were obvious.
> After that, the teacher started checking the capacitors "in and out". The
> "explosions" stopped.
When I was in school (electronics school) we had a wise guy that tore apart
"5 tube all
American's" for the dual 150 Volt electrolytics with three leads molded in, (at
home) he would go
into an unused classroom and "wired in" the electrolytics into one of the
ceiling lights, somehow.
The next teacher was always the witness to the results if his mischief. I
know only because I
caught him a couple of times. (both on "sand box breaks" from different
classes)
He also had a way of adding a 10 minute delay to a cherry bomb. (Clever!)
--
73 Ron KA4INM - All E-mail sent to this address shall linger in the Google
cloud forever!
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