Exploding caps in high(ish) speed!

[G._Hoffman]

Kind of fun.

Oh, and don't try this at home.


Gabriel

[jjasilli]

   I already have: a bias cap mistakenly subject to over-volatge.  It blew up like a cap in a toy cap gun and filled the air with little tufts of fiber.

[tubesornothing]

Oh, and don't try this at home.

...too late.

[EL34]

sort of high speed, but not really.

I am spoiled by watching that show "Time Warp" where they have super fast camera's
Some of the cameras are 40,000 frames I think

That cap explosion needed a way faster camera to be able to see it in slow motion

[2twang2]

Hey--that was fun!

Yeah, Time Warp is great!

[madison]

Cap terrorist!
That was cool.

Funny,toward the end he goes though telling the dangers of attempting this and then ends with "but anyway, they're worth playing with!"

[flocentblack]

I had one just this week blow up inside an amp.  Cathode resistor went open and caused the voltage limit to be exceeded on the bypass cap. 

[G._Hoffman]

sort of high speed, but not really.

I am spoiled by watching that show "Time Warp" where they have super fast camera's
Some of the cameras are 40,000 frames I think

That cap explosion needed a way faster camera to be able to see it in slow motion

That's why I said high(ish) speed. 

I mean, you heard what he said, right?  At 300 frames per second, he gets about 10 seconds of recording time.  Kind of makes your jaw drop in awe at things like the Great White attack shots in Planet Earth, or Time Warp (which I've only seen one segment of - the one where the inventor of the Saw Stop - table saw emergency break - stuck his finger into the table saw blade so you could see the thing in action).


Gabriel

[birt]

looks like small tantalums can be great detonators in homebrew pyrotechnics :D

[EL34]

That's why I said high(ish) speed.  I mean, you heard what he said, right?

Yes, it's not about you. It's about the guys 300 frame camera being able to capture the motion.
Just saying that it would be cool to see it on a faser camera.