vibratoking wrote:We could build a new guitar amp game, kinda like that old Operation game for the "I know where the deadly voltages are, they're inside the amp." guys. I know there are deadly voltages, but where exactly are they? You play the game by finding the non-lethal nodes by holding onto the chassis with your left hand while you hunt and peck inside the amp with this set of conducting tweezers. You lose when you find a lethal node. Then it's someone elses turn...
I like it!
Just need to convince Hasbro ...... er, HAZbro ...... to make it!
JazzGuitarGimp wrote:I didn't toss the charged cap to just anyone.... Oh no, I tossed it to Mr. Francios, my high school electronics teacher. Something tells me he had already been down that road though.
we used to put them in someones coat pocket for the ride home on the buss.
Heh - we used to string 4 x 120vdc batteries together to charge up caps.
Newb advice -
Anything below 400 volts doesn't count as a shock.
More a surprise really.
Always lick your fingers before poking around in a tube amp.
You know it makes sense.
Bacon!
My 9th grade shop teacher was a real comedian.
He was always pulling pranks on us.
We had a class about small engine repair (lawn mower type) and he was explaining the ignition system.
The engine was on a shop table that has a metal top and we were all crowded around the table to see what he was explaining.
Little did we know that he had charged up an magneto capacitor.
As we were pressed up against the table he touched it to the metal.
ZAP!
Right to the nads.
We all jumped back and he laughed and laughed.
No wonder I never had children.
I wonder if this happened in 2013 instead of 1970 if he would still have a job.
Structo wrote:My 9th grade shop teacher was a real comedian.
He was always pulling pranks on us.
We had a class about small engine repair (lawn mower type) and he was explaining the ignition system.
The engine was on a shop table that has a metal top and we were all crowded around the table to see what he was explaining.
Little did we know that he had charged up an magneto capacitor.
As we were pressed up against the table he touched it to the metal.
ZAP!
Right to the nads.
We all jumped back and he laughed and laughed.
No wonder I never had children.
I wonder if this happened in 2013 instead of 1970 if he would still have a job.
Kid on the bus in Jr. High had everybody hold hands. Up front, the first two kids were holding the secondaries of a small step-up transformer. He wiggled the primaries against the terminals of a 9V battery and zapped everyone. Heavy set kid; Howard something...
