4 ms·
Not to brag, but my friend Sean and I are much dumber than you. We took the capacitors out of two disposable cameras and hooked them up inside the casing of a 9
by peter_l_downs 11y ago
Not to brag, but my friend Sean and I are much dumber than you. We took the capacitors out of two disposable cameras and hooked them up inside the casing of a 9v battery – our "9V Taser", we called it. Looked great, but then of course we needed to test it. We decided to do the honorable thing and self-experiment; being the younger and slightly more foolish, I was the subject. We charged it up and he touched it to my arm. I remember my heart sort of "skipped" and I felt really weird for the next couple of hours. Ah, youth.
- mbrameld 11y agoSimilar, but stupider, in my mid 20s while in the Air Force my buddy and I built a rail gun out of disposable camera capacitors. It didn't take long after getting the first capacitor out for us to wonder and discover what it would feel like to short the leads on our skin. That soon turned into a game of tossing a loaded capacitor to the other at various times throughout the day in the hopes that the natural reaction of catching something tossed your way would kick in before the brain figured out what it was catching. Your tax dollars at work.