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Say hello to the 5,000 volt can crusher
What do you do when you find yourself with an old 5,000 volt power supply? Hell, you might as well build a can crusher out of it, right? That's just what Bob Davis did.
Bob stripped the unit down to the supply itself, a huge 100 microfarad capacitor and a (broken) meter. After hooking the thing up to a pumpkin (no effect) and an apple (blown to pieces) he turned his sites on an innocent soda can.The video takes a bit to get going, but it's worth the wait. Just skip to right near the end to get to the good stuff.
By 4r4nd0mninj4 at 2:52 PM ON 11/06/09
The can implodes at 2:23. Save a few min of your life and skip ahead.
By Ronald Stepp at 5:22 PM ON 11/06/09
underwhelmed.. all it did was pinch the middle of the can. I expected it to implode into a black hole after the build up in the title.
By mememe at 3:42 PM ON 11/07/09
someone plz explain to me how that works.
By Paul at 9:57 AM ON 11/08/09
A large current flows through the coil and part of it contacted the can which shorted out and made the smoke. The coil has a very high energy magnetic field and part of that field is induced into the can as voltage. That induced voltage gives the can its own magnetic field. The can's field and the coil's field push away from each other making the can crush in the middle.
If he made more coils it could crush the entire can rather nicely I'd assume.
By JASQNS1 at 12:27 AM ON 11/09/09
Should have hooked it up to a watermelon and made the Galeger proud. "The 2010 Sledge-o-matic."
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