Exploding Capacitor

[MRdeadlyVAMPIRE2]

OOOOOOOO

[SerialKIillerrr]

Gay

[SerialKIillerrr]

'It broke the glaaaaaass' lmao

[whiskeyify]

I used to do this when I got bored....I worked in a TV repair shop...I'd hook up a small capacitor to the Variac a variable AC transformer. the AC voltage will blow up the capacitor.

[ZachiswakYT]

pussyyy my friend put a capacitor in an outlet at school :) it exploded like a gunshot :)

[TuneMaestro]

I accidently put 12v across a 16v capacitor today - all would have been well, if the current was going in the right direction. It wasn't. The capacitor exploded in a similar fashion. 

[chrislpp]

man, you're place is such a mess, do you just set shit up and see if it goes on fire or blows up?

I'm assuming you do haha, wonder what made the CD turn into shards.

[deathclaw50]

3 motherboards watched this video.

[mnpd007]

Sometimes it ain't fun. 30-years ago I was running an expensive ham radio transceiver on a 12vdc power supply when the supply's regulator went out, exposing the equipment to 48vdc. POW! I removed the top cover of the radio and found that the electrolytic caps had blown. One of the large ones had exploded with such force that it blew the surrounding components off the PC board. Total loss! :(

[paintballs1342]

love the little girly "whoo!"

good vid thumbs up

[erikals2]

pow! that capacitor sure blew up. I have a 9V battery and one 1000uF electrolytic capacitor rated at 10V. if I connect a 9V battery the wrong way to the capacitor will the capacitor blow?

[Andyman3k]

@erikals2 Unlikely. Unless you left it connected that way for a few hours or something... then it might burst and vent the electrolyte. but it wouldn't explode.

[randommscience117]

@Andyman3k No, it works fairly quickly.

[FalloutFanBoy101]

@erikals2 it wont blow up but it will vent

[er10b]

@FalloutFanBoy101 lots of smoke or just a little wisp?

[FalloutFanBoy101]

@er10b 5 seconds maby?

[dalton456]

ive done this burning old computer power supplies to melt them and they blow up loud

[Madness832]

I've blown up electrolytic caps (like the one you had shown) by connecting them up reverse-polarity. Didn't take a very high voltage, either.

[DragonUltraMaster]

xDD

[TheNova5]

lmao.

my ex exploded his capacitor in class but his gave off steam and whistled.

[Spazm6]

whoo!

[30GB]

MESSY table not good playing around with stuff like that but its cool

[BMalaya]

Love the whoo :-)

[xxmexxmidnaxx123]

i made a gun that shot capasiters it was powerfull but nothing to my air powerd nail shoter you dont see the nail itill it hits its targit and it went right though my mobile phone and ive even got a atachment that shoots paint balls

[justkillen07]

make a video of it i wana see it bro

[FUTTAHSIKK]

thats legit

[hhs786]

bought a single use camera, opened it out in electronics and put 2 wires around the 330v cap and charged it up and put em on this guy and it burnt his skin sooo bad he was bleedin lol!

[cheetawolf]

poof! tinkle plink.

LOL

[grandtheftauto1233]

lol..

woo

[ThePhailedRoflcopter]

we exploded capacitors today in electronics class, BOOM!

Blew a clean hole through 3mm hard plastic bucket. A proper, strong bucket too, not an el-cheapo bucket. oO

[elliotmotoX]

whoa you blew up a plastic bucket? that must of been like hiroshima all over again

[ThePhailedRoflcopter]

LOL yea. One ricoched off the roof and nearly hit me in the face :O

[anthonyDAtrubador]

My 200 picofarad capacitor exploded when I charged it with an 18volt battery, in my hands 0.o

[hondasaki7999]

Techno junkies RULE!

[RODALCO2007]

Cool!! I have to do something similar too as an experiment.

[Malithion2001]

Throwing them in a fire works just as good.

[livewire242]

Fire BAD! Fire BAD!

[elgranto7]

my friends making one of these for his physics project haha

[260830107]

would a bank of 200V capacitors explode if i charge it up with 250V

[Andyman3k]

It likely would not, and it would probably just get hot or get damaged internally. You would have to charge it pretty darn high and with a lot of current to get it to explode.

[superninjaworm]

Infact elgranto7 is right. The reason the cap explodes is because the current that you are putting though the cap is far too much for the dielectric material between the plates of the capacitor to handle. This creates heat and gas as the dielectric material breaks down, and consequently - pressure! This is why the cap explodes, pressure. That's why on some of the larger caps they have a weak spot stamped into the metal at the top, to encourage the cap to explode in a safer manner due to problems

[PhxSt0rmz]

Never knew that! What, No weak spot means it would be a time bomb that will explode your whole project? Fun...

[zakzak000]

Good to see Darwins theory of natural selection working well then.

[InsideOutAnus]

That's not how Natural Selection works, retard.

[elgranto7]

yes it does, it removes the idiot animals because he has the idiot gene =]

[InsideOutAnus]

But no one died or had their reproductive origins incapacitated.

[elgranto7]

o yes they did...

[InsideOutAnus]

I see no one in the video dying.

[tandemlights]

it broke the glass plastic wtf

[myx1997]

reverse polarity!?

so that's why diodes were so important...

[joecassara]

Andy, I think it's awesome that young people like you are experimenting with science and electronics like this. It really does make me feel a little better about the future generation taking over the country. Just make sure you wear goggles. :)

[maltadude]

awsome i want to try that.

[PetrFM]

Tantalum capacitors explodes much better.

[bfeely]

I made one shoot fire by hooking it backwards to a 12V computer power supply.

[ironman88988]

Using glass would be stupid... even though there is not much of a chance it would hurt someone but there still is a chance, so i would use glass to cover an explosive...

[ironman88988]

**I mean i would nvr use glass to cover a explosive**

[Dragonfire7666]

You know :) that new stuff, plasticglass.

I own a wood welder.

[mrkiky]

It broke the glass!!!!...plastic .. :))

[thorgodof]

claps for u bro

[pimpmastahanh]

for those of u who have ever set off a model rocket, remember how u ran a wire to a disposable charge u stick in the rocket fuel's ass? basically thats a capacitor blowing up. It like rated at .5v and u plug 2 9vs in. Not to mention it own match like start material all around the spark site.

[steven123654]

no it not a capacitor it a heating element with some type of rocket fuel on it or maybe tar or something flammable but not a capacitor

[Andyman3k]

Model rocket starters are usually just a thin piece of high resistance nichrome wire. When current runs through it, it gets red hot and ignites the black powder (or other solid fuel)

[personalmadness]

It's never black powder, because that would just blow up.

[Fentanyl3]

INCORRECT black powder has successfully been used on numerous occasions as ROCKET fuel. It's simply a matter of venting, rather than containing the burn.

[v6greenfbird95]

yea most model rocket enginese are tightly packed black powder with a nozle on the end :)

[mavamaarten]

cool !

i have all the electronics too...

you could make a bomb with a long cable !

[lilletizz]

What kind of power source do you use to charge your capasitor bank?

[Andyman3k]

I use two identical wall wart transformers back to back. Without the rectifying circuits, of course.

[back2nrml]

Ok so you know how to play with electricity so i am guesing you are book smart. So how the fuck do you mistake Glass for Cheap plastic.

[clandestine6760]

dont take it so seriously?! He said plastic afterwards.

[Conquistador19]

You get a nice capacitor explosion if you heat the capacitors until red hot... I burned my hand cause of the burning insulation from the exploding cap.

[Andyman3k]

Hmmm.. I guess I'll have to go try that!

It's probably because the heat makes the electrolyte boil and expand until the case can't take anymore pressure.

[Conquistador19]

Yes, i used a 1300C hot jet flame lighter and now exploded a real big cap. It exploded with lots of smoke, not that much flames. The fumes were just awful smelly. This time, my hand was fine. Thanks to the flame lock function on the lighter :)

[bfeely]

My dad, who THINKS he is handy, messed up hooking up a generator to the house. His computer got WAY too much voltage (he forgot to unplug it) and smoke was rolling out of the power supply because the two filter capacitors blew up.

[zero7525]

lol where's the capacitor?

*in unenthusiastic voice* "Imma discharge it onto that tiny thing right now"

*in what the fux voice* "Wooo!!"

lol i do that too xD, good vid

[tangofizz77]

Whow!, holy crap it broke da glass!

[Velktron]

ROFLMAO u totally pwned that small guy xD

[markiex]

Next week we take over the world!!!

[HVstyle]

xD , awesome!

[Jrod2204]

wow that looks like my room and sounds like something I would do haha

[BagginsX]

Awesome geek!

[yuandrew]

I had a 47uF (or maybe it was a 470uF) capacitor that was rated for 10 volts. It was going to be used as a capacitor across the power input for a little circuit I was building. I didn't think the 12 volt power supply was goint to be too much but for it but a few seconds after I hooked up the circuit to power, there was a loud hissing noise then "POP"; the top of the cap flew off in a cloud of steam.

[RotogenRay]

Whoo!

Hehe, awesome. What caps are in your bank?

[Andyman3k]

2 tv power supply caps (560 mfd)

2 computer power supply caps(470mF)

and 1 470uf cap I found in a shot up tv out in the desert.

they are all rated at 200v

[RotogenRay]

Running them in paralell I'm guessing.

How'd you charge em?

[Andyman3k]

To charge it up to 200v, I used a 12v step-down wall transformer and directly connected up the outputs to I think a 6v transformer I got off of a tv circuit board in the power supply area. I made my own "bridge rectifier" with 4 diodes and then used a 100 ohm charging resistor on the + output to the capacitor bank. I soldered the - side directly to the bank.

[RotogenRay]

very innovative of you.

[bruce666187]

wut man like the video done it myself but l'd like to make a capacitor bank and i have a couple ??? what was the voltage output after second transformer and how hard is it to make a tesla coil once u a good capacitor i'm really interested in making one...thanx

[BadAndUgly]

Pretty crowded workbench =P