fun with exploding capacitors

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mneary said:
Discharge a large electrolytic cap into a small one.

Now this is getting scary.... You have all cracked up haven't you????

Might try this later on though! What did my parents say about a bad influence? lol....
 
Ok, I used my power supply and hooked up caps in parallel, and turned on my power. IT WAS OFF THE HOOK G
 
This inverter project has the tantalum capacitors backwards. They have very high current pulses because the power transistors have avalanche breakdown through them. Many people said the project exploded.
 

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Was it posted on April 1st? I'm sure there has been more than one mischievious posting of a self-destructing project on here.
 
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