Testing the TK Tar Baby

[TinselKoala]

Oh, this is just too hilarious. Whether or not this is Ainslie's co-author, it is still too funny for words. Here is a web page designer's home page, telling us we should be up to date with the latest designs and technology.

http://www.ejrdesign.co.za/

[TinselKoala]

Holy crap, man!

I didn't mean when I triggered it with my hands!! By that time there could only have been a few Joules left on the thing, it had been on fire and was in pretty bad shape.

Whatever doesn't kill you, makes you stronger. I still cannot approach an electrostatic machine or a big cap bank with both hands out front... my body just won't let me do it. I have to take one hand and stick it in my pants pocket and make a fist, before my body will let me get close.

[picowatt]

Well... she's got Yousaidwhat.... or is it Youknowwho......  but since that person can't seem to put together a logical or even coherent argument either, they are still pretty badly off.

Yousaidwhat never did respond with what it was he disagreed with regarding my response to her "inductance from HELL" post and the ones I made just prior.

Regarding her concern about capacitors and safety, I hope she is as much, and hopefully moreso, concerned about safety regarding all that energy stored in her batteries...

I suggest that she find herself a suitable assistant to help perform her tests.  From what I have read, I would not allow her to connect 5 batteries of that size in series in my house without supervision. 


I once saw two guys accidentally drop a 2" diameter 6' long steel pipe across a large marine battery,  The battery had lifting eyes molded into it at each end and was about 4 feet long, 2 feet wide and 15 inches or so tall.

The pipe managed to bridge the terminals with a loud smack.  One of the guys tried to pull the pipe off the battery but it was welded fast to the terminals.  Within seconds, the pipe was too hot to touch and he let go.  As the pipe began to glow a very bright red, he decided it was more prudent to run.  The other guy had already taken that course of action.

Moments later, gaseous electrolyte began spraying out of the top of the battery just before it went "kaboom".

That whole event took place in only 10 seconds or so.

[picowatt]

I didn't mean when I triggered it with my hands!! By that time there could only have been a few Joules left on the thing, it had been on fire and was in pretty bad shape.

Whatever doesn't kill you, makes you stronger. I still cannot approach an electrostatic machine or a big cap bank with both hands out front... my body just won't let me do it. I have to take one hand and stick it in my pants pocket and make a fist, before my body will let me get close.

You're lucky the shrapnel didn't get you.

Hope you washed off the PCB's...

[TinselKoala]

Yep... that first guy could have been me running, I've seen it happen too with car batteries and careless wenches. Er, I mean wrenches.

Here's what a careless wench does.