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Originally Posted by radiotvnut
A friend, who took electronics in highschool during the '70's, said that one of his classmates placed a large cap inside the storage area by the bench (each spot at the bench had a small storage area covered by a wooden door), plugged the cap into the AC outlet; and, within a few seconds, the cap exploded and literally blew the door off the hinges.
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We did similar stuff in our HS electronics lab. The outlets on the workbenches were all controlled by an emergency kill switch, and were powered down at the end of each day. At the end of class one day, after the power was shut down, we stuck a few electrolytics into the outlets and then left.
When the power went back on the next morning, things got kind of exciting.
The time we did the same thing with a selenium rectifier was even better, though. Cleared out several classrooms with the stink...
