Frying stuff

I'm sending this to a buddy of mine.. we used to do this! Maybe in the next episode he'll do a transformer or an electrolytic.

And the final act? Hooking up a 12v car battery to 120v!!

Oh....are you saying that I might have problems after I plug my trailer into a 220 clothes dryer outlet?

You guys seem to be enjoying this waaaaay too much. Me, I'm nearing 60 and still have my eyebrows.
Now as a kid, My buds and I were much more sensible. Estes model rockets with different gunpowder and gasoline mixture to see what color we could get 800 or 1000 feet up.

i can remember connecting electrolytic to 120vac
usually by just bending the wires and poking them into an outlet strip on the work bench

MrWizard wrote:
i can remember connecting electrolytic to 120vac

As I remember they put out a ton of smoke!

And I thought it would be a cooking lesson

darsben1 wrote:
And I thought it would be a cooking lesson

LOL.. not in technology corner!

2oldman wrote:

MrWizard wrote:
i can remember connecting electrolytic to 120vac

As I remember they put out a ton of smoke!

We used to have one blow in our avionics shop once in a while. The old ones are filled with fish oil.
You can only imagine the smell of burning, rancid fish oil... :E

When I worked at Bell Labs, we had a bunch of electrolytics that we used in Telcom inverter frames come in marked incorrectly. They were the size of 3 LB coffee cans. When they blew up it sounded like a shotgun blast and blew Mylar foil and fluid all over he place.

downtheroad wrote:
Oh....are you saying that I might have problems after I plug my trailer into a 220 clothes dryer outlet?

Yup been there done that. Only mine was an RV outlet that an ELECTRICIAN wired to 220. :(

I digress. I only wish I would have taken a picture of my converter after THAT surge hit it.

One of the capacitors inside the converter looked like someone shot it with a 10 gauge. RV repair guy asked if he could take it back to show his partners cause he'd never seen anything like it before!