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10A Variac and 64v Transformer. What should I blow up next?

iamdarkyoshi
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Sorry, but I guess I am advertising my youtube channel here. I (think) ads are disabled, so I should not be making any money from the views.

Anyway I had a fair amount of fun blowing up this old fan:

It seemed to me like one or more of the transistors inside the controller chip shorted which caused that coil to get stuck in a powered state, and made it so the fan could not continue to rotate on its own. After this, I raised it up further and it started arcing, releasing...

 

THE MAGIC BLUE SMOKE.

 

 

Here was the aftermath:

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Which begs the question, with a supply that should theoretically be able to deliver ~64v DC at 20A, what should I blow up next?

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I vote for an old HDD.

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You can blow up a microwave. And also have you watched photonicinducion? hes has legendary videos on on blowing shit up xD

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1 minute ago, ProKeero said:

You can blow up a microwave. And also have you watched photonicinducion? hes has legendary videos on on blowing shit up xD

I aint avin it! Where's mah hammer?!?

 

Not sure how I would blow up a microwave. I do have like 5 MOTs

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Just now, iamdarkyoshi said:

I will need to find a way to keep the logic rail (5v) powered while I crank up the 12v rail. An old phone charger should work

If you do it, can you take the cover off so you can see the platters spinning?

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Just now, iamdarkyoshi said:

I will need to find a way to keep the logic rail (5v) powered while I crank up the 12v rail. An old phone charger should work

yea just have multiple sources of power

but my vote goes to a optical drive.

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Just now, iamdarkyoshi said:

I aint avin it! Where's mah hammer?!?

 

Not sure how I would blow up a microwave. I do have like 5 MOTs

xD, as he would say "i want more!"

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3 minutes ago, ionbasa said:

If you do it, can you take the cover off so you can see the platters spinning?

 

2 minutes ago, iamdarkyoshi said:

Yup. I already have a prime candidate for this, the heads are missing but it spins perfectly

 

 

Not sure what happened to the quote

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Just now, iamdarkyoshi said:

I have a second variac

Blow up the variac! xD

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-sigh- feeling like I'm being too negative lately

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Just now, iamdarkyoshi said:

No. I paid good money for those (school was getting rid of about 1000 bucks of stuff)

Lol just blow up your ma's dildo xD

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try it on a hard disk's brushless motor :P

because 7200rpm isnt enough

-sigh- feeling like I'm being too negative lately

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3 minutes ago, Moonzy said:

try it on a hard disk's brushless motor :P

because 7200rpm isnt enough

I would need basically 3 phase AC. Wonder if I could use a 555 and some shift registers... Probably could

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1 minute ago, iamdarkyoshi said:

I would need basically 3 phase AC. Wonder if I could use a 555 and some shift registers... Probably could

i thought it was just 3 pin where it takes a voltage and is pwm controlled? is it not?

-sigh- feeling like I'm being too negative lately

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30 minutes ago, iamdarkyoshi said:

She dont have one...

That's what you think 0.o

 

I vote for a CPU. Just pass as much voltage as you can through a couple of the pins.

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Keyboard. An old phone. Light bulb. Monitor. Hard drive. Any batteries. Metal coils. Clock. Mouse. Electric children's toys. Speakers? Optical drive. Camera. Calculator. 

 

Sorry. I'm just naming whatever the hell I can right now.

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4 hours ago, iamdarkyoshi said:

Nope. Its basically a 3 phase AC motor.

`-` the more you know

 

edit:

try this maybe, though you might not be able to go full 64v since it'll exceed 10A depending on your motor `-`

and it'll probably kill it instantly lol

edit: enable subtitle `-`

Spoiler

 

 

-sigh- feeling like I'm being too negative lately

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