Capacitor in the Microwave

Ah, those were the days... It messes with the screen a bit, I'm not sure why.

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• champagne

[TeravoltOrg]

The screen thing is because the flashes are at 60 (50?) Hz. Your camera only shoots at 30Hz. The flashes and the camera shutter don't line up causing the same effect as a car wheel appearing to rotate backward.

[SmackheadPedo]

@TeravoltOrg

So this is pretty much identical to the problem of filming a TV? Thanks.

[SmackheadPedo]

I can't believe this shit. I used to have four and a half stars....

[soundspark]

@SmackheadPedo There are 15 likes (one by me) and 2 dislikes. That is about equivalent to about 4.4 stars.

[SmackheadPedo]

@soundspark

Yeah thanks,

The microwave and everything else you see here are actually now gone, the school was demolished about three years ago.

[bccritters]

was that a fully charged capacitor?

[SmackheadPedo]

If only we'd thought of that...

[bccritters]

:)

probably would have blown the door off.

when i first met my wife, she got the idea to hard boil an egg in a cup of water in the microwave. the explosion was so loud, i jumped out of my chair, well over 100 feet away (industrial warehouse). the poor lady eating her lunch next to the micro was covered in half boiled egg.

it was love at first site...

[proutsos]

I read on the net that if you use a bowl of water, the egg doesn't explode but like bccritters had to wipe sprayed egg from allover the kitchen, ceiling included...

[tra5470]

Recorded with a toaster........

[jhmoonman]

Nice!

[RockIsK1ckAss]

coming up next:capacitor in blender

[genesis1357]

i dunno. it didn't look as though these things failed from being hooked up the wrong way, but it looked like they were over charged.

[soundspark]

I thought it was assumed in this video that electrolytic capacitors were being blown up.