Bob Davis picked up a five thousand volt power supply on Ebay. Not having many things around the house which required that kind of power, he turned it to more fun uses.
Bob stripped the unit down to the supply itself, a huge 100 microfarad capacitor and a (broken) meter. After hooking the thing up to a pumpkin (no effect) and an apple (blown to pieces) he turned his sights on an innocent soda can.
The can went into a coil on the outside of the box and, like Marty McFly powering up Doc Brown’s giant amp and speaker, Bob flicked the switches one by one. After a brief dalliance with the broken meter, he threw the switch. Krrzzzzzt! Dumping all that juice into the can chopped it in half, a few shards of tattered aluminum the only things keeping the crushed pieces together. This wonderfully whimsical (and probably very dangerous) use of Bob’s $100 Ebay score rendered the zapping unit itself non-functional. Bob says “I tried to use it again but discovered that the power transformer was shorted and the diode was blown to bits”.
A shame, but if you’re going to go, then go with a bang, we guess.
5 KV Soda Can Crusher [Bob Davis via L]
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