Capacitor Explosions

[DogBrainDon]

Keep pressing 4

[RodneyFerret]

hey man!! c'mon! check this out! is better than weed!!!

[PriestBurn]

I thought about pranking someone by unsoldering a few capacitors from his motherboard and resoldering them the wrong way. But then I thought I should check what will happen, so I watched this vid.

Well, you've probably saved someone's life today.

[BoomBoxDeluxe]

The second one.......YAY! A whistley-squeeler. :-D My favourite! :-D

Mmmmm.......*POP*

-BoomBoxDeluxe.

[greenspiraldragon]

you let the magic smoke out.



[RODALCO2007]

Great capacitor blow ups.

[HDXFH]

LOL, Good vid, That large orange 1 was unbelievable, well sealed

[dash8brj]

That second one (orange one) sounded VERY displeased with its treatment :)

[Teletappie3]

very intresting how "safe" the new ones are

[kikinjoZG]

I have atx psu that have leaking electrolytic capacitors. You say that reverse voltage destroys the capacitive effect. I am trying to fix my atx psu, what to replace next on my psu ?

[TeravoltOrg]

@kikinjoZG They were probably capacitors affected by the capacitor plague. There should be nothing else wrong with the PSU.

[classicmacintosh]

@kikinjoZG personally I would just replace the PSU with a good quality one from Corsair or similar. While it is possible to replace these capacitors, there may be damage to other components of the PSU.

[HaxorSpain]

For PARTY HARD press 4 repeatedly.

[sabreforever556]

Munich are you kidding... 45000 views in a week ?

[pikaaacz]

don't breathe this!

[MrJohn1966elliott]

Old one is not safe But Modern new cap is much safe.

[lonewolfraider]

Exploded Capacitor's smell like fart

[almcken]

0:30 capacitor smoke. don't breathe this.

[madmax14141]

the second one made me feel sad for it D:

[ethoxyethaan]

should have put a small resistor on it cus you could have damaged the wires inside your transformer.

[wad3shaman]

Ok now you got to up the ante and do some BIG capacitors! Something like a car audio 12v 1.0 Farad caps! lol you might need a bunker if your power supply has enough current to make one of those catastrophically fail.

[modhappy]

How do they get all that smoke in such a little component ? :)

[iToasterman]

This video was insulted, it hit hackaday D: lol but these are awesome

[TheManicNick]

Question: The capacitors that exploded are the non-venting axial type? I salvaged an old tv board with several and I plan to blow them up. Decades old too, so I doubt they'll be useful.

[TeravoltOrg]

@TheManicNick Yes, the old sprague ones have no vent and are quite explosive.

[TheManicNick]

@TeravoltOrg Awesome! Thanks for confirm.

[TheManicNick]

@TeravoltOrg I started blowing up capacitors way below mains voltage and its quite loud. :D I remove the plastic wrapping with a knife but it ends up scoring the cap on the sides. They tend to burst there first rather than the top vents. Going to make a switch box with a breaker and push button.

[JSBasss]

I particularly like the second one :)

[AntiProtonBoy]

what voltage did you pump into them?

[TeravoltOrg]

@AntiProtonBoy 50V

[MINIMI95020]

"Oh, I'm really bored so i'll just go out and explode some capacitors" hehe :P i love your vids