Capacitor explosion from excessive voltage

[denniscatara]

trim hushaushuashuahsuahsuahsuahs

[die2end]

It's like popcorn

[MyKhalidkhalid]

capacitor execution

[1996BRECHT]

don't give al qaeda ideas !

[marianxtreme]

coooool good stuff



[FoliFF93]

Don't breath in the magic smoke people :)

[almouloudi]

Cat hair is inside them .

[1nsanejochem]

yeah try with 100kv on a 1F car hifi capacitor, that ought to wake the neighbours up :)

[1EpicLulz]

Fireworks for nerds

[pigwigpa]

those are small fries. try that with a 100kv

[kalijasin]

Looks dangerous. Like Small bombs. Someone could get really hurt.

[KKarkaz]

poor capacitors

[kazadduum]

Recently I have been soldering a plate...to test my project,I firstly ocnnected it to 6v...As it wasn't working,I recalculated all the resistors and other stuff...So I realized that 12v can't do any harm...I connected 12v and suddenly a capacitor exploded..Scared a hell out of me

[NicksGarageDoor]

Yeah, this happened to me when I accidentally reversed the polarity on mine. It was only 12 volts, and the cap was good for 35, but man, did it scare the crap out of my dad!

[KygonGames]

@Bioeccentric Yes, they comment on youtube videos excessively!

[whiskeyify]

I used to work in a TV repair shop...I'd blow up some capacitors when I got bored. We had a Variac it's a AC transformer...I'd hook up the cap and slowly bring up the voltage.

Another fun thing to blow up an old speaker...hook it up and it starts vibrating like crazy..then the coil burns up.

[SigEpBlue]

That last one: looks like a chipmunk exploded. :D

[mediarocker543]

0:50 Capacitor Smoke.... Don't breath this!

[cipmars]

@mediarocker543 I guess it's toxic, but it also stinks to high heaven!

[bazengao]

what kind of voltage were you ppl using?

[ZachiswakYT]

my frient put a capacitor in a power strip plugged into an outlet in class today; it sounded like a gunshot when it exploded; it was amazing; i think it destroyed the power strip tho

[djsufferthing]

Throw them in a fire and you have a poor man's firecracker.

[illkillyoubitch]

This happened to me on my brand new ASUS Rampage III Formula doing a stress test. 2 of them blew... it sounded like firecrackers and smelt like shit.... faulty. Ended up RMA to newegg then got another Gigabyte instead. Don't hold it against Asus since this was extremely rare and one time thing (I hope). We all get a faulty part here and there. But damn... the capacitors were touching the heatpipe (not sure this is normal) but the chipset ran like 20c hotter than my Giga. X58 chipset idle ~50c+

[alewisgb]

what pd are we looking at???

[emmettebrown]

so capacitors could also be used as explosives? i wanted to try a 400v 4.7 uF capacitor on 220v. outlet under the ground to blast it

[AIMENDENSTORE]

This happened to me once in a physics lab session. Our teacher wasn't "happy" to say the least, haha

[2800boy]

Super slow mo camera would of been nice.

[PhuckHue2]

just a ping? you were suppose to put gunpowder and lighter fluid on top the caps. then you'll have a show

[ciprianwiner]

lol a week ago when i build up a my 2nd power supply i inverted the Polarity on the cap and it overheated it and then a gas excaped from it and guess what is working as good as new 2200uf maybe less now but who cares it worked!

[hempseed57]

Wow its like you took a video of my semi conductor course back in the 1990's . That's all we did to,

[Rannyfash]

now could we use this as a means of accelerating projectiles in a confined space , aka a capacitor gun

[Giacomandfan86]

Thumbs Up if 0:35 scared you :)

[pdani72]

SLOW MOTION OF THIS NOWWW!

[UTubeisSHIT523441]

RIP the capacitors.

[catsandrats95]

Now thats  busting a cap!

[freeadplanet]

BEAUTIFUL MAN BEAUTIFUL

[TheRAZZITEAK]

orrrrrrrrrr......

get a firecracker!!!

[mike4ty4]

How come it has cotton (or some kind of fiber) in it?

[XxWLLRxX]

my last name is waller and when i saw waller1218 i flipped out

[rirdrifta]

0:34

[tmafkap]

@Bioeccentric YEAH! Nerdelectation!

[MrSTANGlover]

TIME WARP IT!

[Keisuke995]

I made mistake off placing Negatives & positives side yet I burst it in class... Shocked

[leaderofplanet]

on of those exploded on my, i would like to know whats in them

[danagol1985]

@leaderofplanet Its nothing overly dangerous, a thin insulator, wound up with aluminum foil, and a bit of electrolyte. Really, the worst injury you could get is from the physical act of the explosion, or hot metal.

[se9101]

Nerd activity for Saturday night... :P

[awesomelightning]

o.o looks at a thing with like 50 capacitors that I removed from a speaker. Must...Blow...it...up.......

[WALTURIUS]

@Bioeccentric STFU

[Arjoonmoal]

make a gun with it now

[sinkingrob11]

hahahahhaa go to my chanel were i hook up a giant one to a wall outlet

[dusp2k]

You should try inhaling those gasses, really nice!

[lordmat666]

some capacitor will blow up if you inverse the polarity

[jigglesnap]

i have a scar from being hit by one of these

[MaxVolumeify]

0:53 sound like a claymore.

[purplegumibear]

Heh... done this quite a few times.... accidentally XD

[lapulapu12345]

CAPACITOR BOMB :D

[mick23586]

wooooooooooowww

[jasper487]

you make an elco gun :D

[holiday666]

did the capacitor die?

[wildfire19861987]

Reminds me of when i had an electrolytic one blow in a CB radio i was trying out. There was a loud ping from the can hitting the metal case then smoke poured out of it. Pretty sure the can would've went into orbit if the casing hadn't been there.

[MaqicBlitzRS]

those things are vicious!

[TheHackWhite]

I'm with you 101!!

[vkorinfsky]

tantalum caps explode like a flare with pink smoke. I recommend doing out side.

[ujayet]

Now thats what I call "FUN WITH ELECTRONICS"!!!

[101pyromaniac]

OMG an i just happen to have some of these lying around my house, i think im gona go piss of the nabors xD

[madamerotten]

How are you going to tell these capacitors' children that you killed their mom-cap or dad-cap with this horrible, inhumane abuse? Is it worth the millisecond thrill to utterly destroy a capacitor family? I think not.

[renekenshin6573]

err what a waste of capacitors

[castelinop]

Nice

[TIM1TULIAG]

wow , thanks !

[birramorettisuper]

good year

[ard5608]

is this AC or DC? DC right, that creates a build up of voltage....?? plz respond

[od8086]

@ard5608 DC, with incorrect polarity. but an elco can build up excessive (over) charge and blow up, from proper-polarity AC spikes to, so think about the sine wave-s actual maximum voltages when using them to smooth some rectified AC.

[ross817]

@ard5608 with electrolytic capacitors like they're using you can only use DC or something bad will happen. (no idea what.) Also, you can only use DC to build up a charge in capacitors because otherwise the net voltage is basically 0.

[JohnnyX50]

Did this once at college with a tantalum bead cap. Cut a slit in a tennis ball, drew a face on it, shoved cap inside and slowly ramped up a reverse voltage across it. It broke down before any explosion occurred letting out a kind of weird gasp of steam that was was greenish brown that slowly wafted out the mouth of the ball. It was cool. Also overpowered a smoothing cap that was soldered in board. it took off like a rocket leaving its legs behind LOL

[od8086]

@JohnnyX50 be careful, the sodium borate inside the elcos is not too healthy, and it's very irritative, like a cheap tear-gas :)

[WorldWideGlide]

lol these guys are having a little too much fun with this

[samolux]

PRING!!

[BenHutchinson1]

I thought caps were made with breakout tops so only the top blows off, preventing a complete capacitor explosion.

[kevinmaster0071]

very cool

[jks2]

it get's taller at 0:15 :P

[zker666]

just reverse the polarity

[TechnologyGod]

LOL "weehaw!" That one guy sounded like Austin Powers when they blew the blue one.

[od8086]

well, if we are chatting about electrolytic cap.s. how you call it in a short form? I wrote earlier in my comment "el-co", but I guess that not OK in the english speaking world. In hungary, the engineering tech-speak is mostly comes from German, el-co is from "elektrolytkondensator", it's "elektrolit kondenzátor" in hungarian, and therefore it's called "elkó" in tech-speak. And how about there? :) el-co is not correct in english, I think.

[waller1218]

I like "elko",. We use "caps"

[sc0rpi0n0]

@od8086 it's al-cap.

[somainglove]

@od8086 Many people call Electrolytic Capacitors "E-cap"

[Pelle4495]

@od8086 We use elco too. It comes from the dutch elektrolytische condensator. In English it would be el-ca from electrolytic capacitor. Just guessing here... most english people I know use caps. But it is less precise because it could also be a ceramic or tantalum etc. capacitor.

[picbuck]

@od8086 - With capacitors, there is no short term for "electrolytic" in English, we just say the word. Possibly because "electro" is already so overused that any short form would cause confusion.

[od8086]

and the acid inside is not too healthy for the eyes also

[Futzyy]

probably wouldnt be healthy for any other part of you. lol.

[TechnologyGod]

Yeah it was particularly sour tasting, and it did sting the eyes, I had to ventellate my dorm room with a fan and open up the door and window, lol. Vaporized acid is some nasty stuff.

[Futzyy]

ah, so it had the same effect as too much airspray? it gets into the air but theres so much of it you manage to catch it on your tongue. this is why i tend to do experiments outside :P but i can understand how that would be hard in a dorm.

ventilate, btw :D

[nickn5]

Good job they don't use PCBs (Polychlorinated biphenyl) in capacitors like that any more... chloracne anyone?

[OlegKostoglatov]

@nickn5 They never used PCBs in electrolytic condensers they used always used borax compounds and aluminum. Some of the oil filled condensers supposedly used PCBs but very rarely and mostly in high voltage equipment, the regular ones just used mineral oil.

[od8086]

ooh man, always be careful with the polarity. 5 minutes ago an el-co exploded into my face, and it caused a scar on my forehead :]

[Turin524]

@od8086 scarring within 5 minutes? niice...

You must have super-human healing abilities, no?

[od8086]

ehh :) my english is pre-intermediate :) it caused a WOUND, and after 2-3 days, it was only a scar. Is this correct? :P

[Turin524]

@od8086 Yup, that's good.

[happygamestvfun1]

@od8086 man i feel sorry for your tratagie, you need to see a doctor about the scar

[bigtoyota479]

@od8086 Wow. You got a scar in 5 minutes?

[espltdm251playa]

@bigtoyota479 hahaha man i was thinking the same shit lol

[toranamunter]

@od8086 ooh man, always be careful with burning hot coals. I just picked one up and now my hand is all burnt.

[helicoptered]

@od8086 I had a similer incident with a LR33 button cell donkey kong game & watch battery, I charged it with 9vdc when I was a kid and it me straight in the middle of the forehead

[jozet77]

nice, try the 15mF capacitor

[zker666]

microfarad is uF, not mF.

[JakkHack]

@zker666

Actually it's μF

[zker666]

i know it is i just don't know the code for it =]

[jozet77]

I meant mili farad, not uF

[TheBarathbushan]

want an instant blast.....take an electrolytic capacitor and connect it to a reverse voltage

[peuterschmidt]

haha, smell lovely, dont they? :D

[naxps]

Absolutely delicious.

[peuterschmidt]

^,^ yea

[topphemelig]

Lol, do a 10 fard xD

[yellowdart137]

heh, those things can be loud. worked as a tech for some time and often had a dozen computers running at once. this was a common sound.

[spongah]

now do a 1.5 farad haha

[Stephenlee5]

Good GOSH that made me jump!!!

[1eri6]

you know whats fun...

Plugging them into an outlet :)

[na5m]

Wow! I didn't realize that a cap could explode with so much force! Even a little cap. I'd like to see a video of a large cap being over-volted!

[DRNEGOLICIS]

lol.......... dont try it....

[fooootball101]

that would be quite a show, but I bet tt would send out a volt like a tesela coil! XD

[xstyr]

I kind of worry how loud I was playing my music to have a new pair of speakers capacitors explode like this. Damn there was a lot of fluff everywhere

[EnlightenedPerson]

Not only does that statement not make any sense, capacitors explode from excessive voltage, not excessive current (which is what makes speakers get loud).

Rephrase this please.

[xstyr]

Fine.

I somewhat worry about how loud I had been playing my music for a new pair of speakers to have their exposed capacitors explode much like in the video. There was a lot of fluff scattered everywhere from the capacitors.

Yes I realise it is voltage, the comment was more of a joke than a serious (rhetorical) question. Either way they did explode and why exactly I'm still unsure (they were cheap mind you) and I though I'd add a little light humor by blaming it on the volume.

Happy now?

[xstyr]

thought*

[Xlay16]

one of this thing blowed in my face

[joker71496]

i ment the ones that don't indicate the poles

[binzing]

Ceramic capacitors aren't polarity sensitive.

[Payekhali]

I liked to do that at school :D

I got my best results using twice the max voltage rating, with reverse polarity!!!

[joker71496]

not to sound dumb but how do i find the + and - in a capacitor

[krazygirlzgokrazi]

there is a black strip on one side with (-)'s. That is the negative side. If there are no markings polarity is not important. I think you can figure out how to look for a minus sign on a capacitor.

[binzing]

The negative side with have a line with (-) down it.

[joker71496]

no shit

[Obamazing91]

- is usually marked on the side of the capacitor or is usually the shorter lead...

[DragonTrew]

Also, if you capacitor is new, the short wire is the negative (-) and the long wire is the positive (+). If it is not an electrolytic nor a tantalum capacitor, then the polarity dos not matter...

[markii63]

0:52 looks goood :D

[JuicYouS]

now a high speed camera version please

[uut0]

i have 4 2200µF caps (65v) how will those explode n_n

[thelightguy1]

I always thought the Bipolar capacitors would blow the biggest. That has to be the biggest capacitor explosion ever.

[zker666]

that is exactly why they put little crosses or X's in the top =P

[Ashuiegi]

just happend to me today at 30 cm from my face with an 4700 microfarad one, really impresssive , looks like you explode a bird after , little piece of paper flying everywhere:P

[SuperSmasher97]

yeah i did that too!!!my whole room was full with "dust"!!!!!

[JuanPapaNicolao]

LOL those could be loud that happend to them mini caps on my cars 6x9's after i hooked an amp up to them. That was the loudest Firecracker pop ive heard come from a capacitor

[gabxrevolution05]

I proof it... Smoke smells like fried beans.

[elliotmotoX]

looks like a good little pop for a capacitor, C4 works better but =P

[antienjigglement]

Now that you have frivolously destroyed these tiny electrolytic capacitors, please take the next step and amuse me in a manner befitting my stature and credentials, by doing the same with something more on the order of a 20uF/4KV or 6uF/12KV oil capacitor.

[beeohhski]

YEAHHHHHH

[uN1Qu3DZ]

Maybe they don't have high voltage supplies. But a 4700uF/63v should do nicely... I know i blew a 2200uF/40v one in an amplifier that ran on 60 volts. It made a crapload of noise, dunno about the spark as the amp's case was closed.

[Ashuiegi]

4700 uF / 63 V is already impressive , it s schreaded two resistance and one condensator next to it !

[kdc43]

An exploding 6uF/12KV oil capacitor should be sufficiently entertaining!!!

[Juliantube3]

Nice :-)

[MrRAndom5]

you should try to film this with one of those really slow motion cameras, that would be class

[rentacowisgoogle]

3 capacitors on my old 7600 GT video card did this awhile ago... i thought someone was throwing rocks at my window!

[rentacowisgoogle]

Oh and it still works too! But crashes the system after a few minutes. :-\

[stranac1]

what a monkeys the liquid in those caps is cancerogen

[Hestjaevel111]

potatoes are cancerous... (cancerogen is not even a word in English)

[Desmonddd2002]

Is that bullet proof glass ?

[walkingfreak]

hahaha i had two Capacitors explode and it left a good smoke cloud and a good mess it was pretty cool it was on a frequency reducers for my woofer i laughed so hard

[Calliber50]

haha in our frat house we wired a bunch of these in parallel and slid them under someone's door. He said his room smelled horrible for a couple days. I actually thought it was an improvement on the normal smell of that place!

[helicoptered]

yeah, I did blow some up, the electrolyte smells like pee thats been sat there for 3 years..

[randomstufdude]

you should try it with the cyramic disc ones or those squares ones i want to see that

[bobofengland112]

i wonder what happens if you do that to a really big capacitor...

[mklvebu]

Cool video! I remember the first time I blew up a capacitor on purpose. I don't remember the capacity but it was a good size one. Let's just say it sounded close to an M-80 and there was paper throughout the foyer!

[yankee5456]

erm what the diffrence between AC and DC curent and whats in a 9v battry ?

[JoshatSuzuki]

ac is alternating... there are about 70 pulses of AC current a minute making your computer monitor flash right in front of your eyes...dc is just Direct Current...

9v batteries are DC, as they do not have the electronic equipment built in to make the power pulse...

direct current loses a lot of power in power lines, so we use alternating

[bassmetropolis]

yeah you connect it to 120VAC , sure it will explode

[waller1218]

35 volts DC

[pruefziffer]

Who are the people in the background? Sounds like a group of students. Cool video!

[waller1218]

one year Electrical/Electronic Technology students at James Sprunt Community College

[TheDevilOnHoliday]

DIE CAPACITORS!

[dynamicblast]

lol so much cotton in the caps.or wad isst.lol

[rondelo74]

The same will happen if the capacitor is connected with reverse polarity. The best effect is when 4700uF capacitor is connected in this way. Don't try this at home ! :)

[cipmars]

I tryed to put a very old radio on my car. One of the capacitors was so dry that it shorted out when I turned the radio on. It was pretty large, so it blew the lid right off. Poof, the radio's lid went off and out came a puff of grey smoke. :) Oh, and, indeed, they smell rotten when they blow up.

[poissoncon]

lol the black one

[EWE2UBER]

i use to throw them in the fire pit for bang up show.

[samreece1]

This is what happens when you let the smoke out of the wires. It will quit working!

[AJFishdude20X6]

So why are you blowing up capacitors? Other than the obvious reason that it looks cool.

[waller1218]

Checking the tolerance level and to show what happens if excessive voltage is applied.

Thanks for the question.

[callmewilson]

They smell pretty nasty when they explode!

[ViolentVendetta]

i like the smell of burning electrics XD

[cnotehall]

What factors determine the capacitive reactance of a capacitor?

[Kilowatt910]

1)frequency and 2)Capacitance.

[CJackSparrow79]

really stupid question never heard of wikipedia