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jacquesm 4 hours ago

This would be the funniest thing to do. 100K Amps is doable, the question is for how long. That would be one very impressive bank of capacitors. And to turn a 00 into plasma would have some spectacular side effects, such as raining molten copper across a sizeable area. Just your reading glasses would indeed not be enough, there probably isn't any PPE that I would consider entirely safe other than sufficient distance from ground zero. But now I'm really curious. I have a spot welder that will do bursts of 5KA and that will happily throw the breaker every so many welds. 100KA sustained will be a fair engineering challenge.

Ah, that lego project... that was one I always wondered if I should have industrialized it but sourcing enough lego was a real problem.

adiabatichottub 4 hours ago | parent [-]

Ho ho ho, you asked for it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OC7sNfNuTNU

jacquesm 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Holy crap. That's a whole series of bad ideas extremely well executed. That guy probably has never seen what a lead acid battery can do when it explodes. He keeps hiding away from the hot metal but in the path of ~half of those batteries. Ignorance is bliss.

That's low voltage lightning :)

adiabatichottub 3 hours ago | parent [-]

He was gifted an arch flash suit by the guys from Lightening on Demand :D

jacquesm 3 hours ago | parent [-]

"The gift of life". Complete madness.

bigiain 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

See also (as posted elsethread): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RoGbrgOhPes