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>don’t toy with those things on a much smaller scale - in about 3rd grade at one point we had that game that took off like epidemic in our school and fortunate
by trhway 8y ago
>don’t toy with those things
on a much smaller scale - in about 3rd grade at one point we had that game that took off like epidemic in our school and fortunately subsided quickly too - shocking each other (today you'd call it "tazering":), in an open fight kind of like 2 scorpions or sneaking upon, with the capacitors, wall socket charged (220v in USSR) and if i remember correctly of 10-200mkF (like an 1in thick cylinder or a block up to half Rubik cube size). The shock was profound to say the least and according to some literature seems to be crossing into accidentally deadly territory in unfortunate circumstances. Fortunately no injuries/deaths happened. Happy childhood in USSR :) - many things from our childhood one just cant do today anywhere.
- bdamm 8y agoDoesn't the m and k cancel each other out, leaving just F? You must mean µkF == mF?
- trhway 8y agoyou're right, should have been "uF" (10e-6), thanks. My mistake - i transliterated Russian label "мкФ" ("mkF") which is abbreviation from the Russian word "mikrofarad".
- MertsA 8y agoOne thing that makes that capacitor prank significantly safer is that the terminals are so close together so the actual current path through the victim is very unlikely to send any significant current through their heart. Still possible if they touched one terminal to their hand and the other terminal landed on their body or if the victim got one terminal and the prankster accidentally touched the other.
- trhway 8y agoyes. Never thought about it. Frequently there were wires attached so that the wires would stick out of your hand like 2-8in toward your opponent. Still usually both ends would touch about the same locality on the body.