30 May
2004
30 May
'04
7:02 a.m.
On Sat, 29 May 2004, Scott Stevens wrote:
One boring day I got clever and decided to daisy chain
a bunch of them
together. I had about a hundred of them all snapped together in series
then I hooked leads up to the end terminal. When I brought the leads
close, it arced over in a very flameful fashion. I think I remember the
leads actually catching on fire.
What an idiot I was. 900 volts with an amp or more of current capacity
behind it is extremely dangerous.
"Self-entertaining" comes to mind :)
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