5 KV Can Crusher

[AsylumET]

seems like an extreme amount of wasted energy to do something that you can do by hand with little effort. What is the point of your experiments with this?

[Redrobottyler]

@AsylumET For fun.

[AsylumET]

@Redrobottyler nothing wrong with that, just wasn't sure if there was something I was missing.

[jk1567]

@AsylumET he just having some fun maybe

[nothing40]

0:53 I'm yelling at the screen "Don't put your fingers in there dumbass!"

Trust me,that could ruin your day and end your life with the quickness.

[09fod]

@nothing40 made me cringe :S

[namezjonteg]

Hallo

i want to ask, what is the function of the glass that connected with the string?

according to your circuit, what is the inductor and two nodes on the upright?

last, what is the yellow and black thing inside the box?

Thanks

[bobdavis321]

@namezjonteg

The plastic separates the contacts on the switch. Are you talking about the microwave oven transformer? Are you referring to the current limiting resistor?

[jk1567]

put your finger in it 

[MrTHEORIGINALICEMAN]

@jk1567 LOL...

[Flapjackbatter]

I cant decide what is most facinating. The cancrusher or the washerlauncher.

But what happenes when one attempts to crush a new , unopened can ? Splash ?

[x01000101x]

I think the camera man is ray ramano 0_o

[Jester486]

Very cool.

Might recommend getting a laser thermometer. Many times when something goes wrong... it's because something, cooked, vaporized, or over heated. A laser thermometer could tell you what part that was without you getting near the hot or HV parts. This may help give you an idea of how much of a charge is resident before you put your hands in there. EMF detectors can work too, but take a bit more work to calibrate (human factor).

[hanzithaking]

what would happen if u put ur finger in there

[Mooohrhuhn]

nothing, because your finger isn't magnetic

[hanzithaking]

ok thnx i didnt know that so it has to be metal or some thing rigt

[Mooohrhuhn]

yes, i think, because only if electricty can flow in the materlial something happens. maxbe your hand will getting hot or something ölike this

[hanzithaking]

ok :D

[Driv3th3hiv3]

Nothing, your finger isnt ferromagnetic

[Byza01]

How do you scale down the voltmeter reading by a factor of 10?

[bobdavis321]

I use 10 x 1 meg ohm resistors.

[mar93ram]

Thats a cool lookin volt meter(the one on the front panel). Where'd you get that?

[flamedrag18]

why don't you make a coil gun that runs off this capacitor? it would be AWESOME!

[hoarp001]

What happens if you put a can made from a ferrous metal, like a steel bean tin...?

[bscross32]

hey that has good potential

[Pedronology]

do it with a full can of soda

[Mosfet510]

Nice can crush, seems to be more intense with the defib. caps. btw I checked out that 17kv/15uF video- woa! some serious discharge there.

[triggerhappy77707]

I like how you include your technical difficulties. I cannot make myself fearing i will make a fool out of myself :P.

That is neat how you can tell the higher voltage seems to crush the can more around the coil. Perhaps this is because of the shorter high current discharge time.

Neat video, i would like to have some big high voltage capacitors. I crushed cans with a measly 100 joules fairly well, i hope 624 joules with a lytic can do the same.

[bobdavis321]

What you do not see is that when I turned off the camera I went in there with a voltmeter and it blew to smitherines!!!

[Pedronology]

ha ha

[camintmier]

Stupid question, but what would happen if you put something alive inside the ring, like a hand?  Cool video anyways.

[bobdavis321]

It might cure anything that ails it? It would be kind of like the stories of people struck by lightning and their arthritis went away.

[Demoman42]

I'm interested how much voltage need to crush can into stick..

[bobdavis321]

There is a YouTube video where someone used like 17KV to break the soda can in half. Look for '17kv can crush'

[Demoman42]

Sweet Baby Jesus ! ! ! ٩(̾●̮̮̃̾•̃̾)۶

[amfan12]

doesn't take long to charge that cap

[sciencoking]

the capacity of the new cap is much smaller than that of the 8 electrolytic ones before

[bobdavis321]

Thats charging only 30 uF versus charging over 600 uF in the older video's.

[bobdavis321]

A defibrullator capacitor is discharged through a coil that is around a soda can. That produces a powerful magnetic field that crushes the can.

[deelean]

How does that work?