zapping people with disposable camera capaciters

[rhetor22]

To all you electronic smart guys out there:

I have a little 330v 80uf capaciter that i got out of a disposable camera. I've zapped myself three or four times with it and it makes me laugh hysterically.

If i go around zapping my friends with this thing, can it actually do some damage like burn them, or is it just a little zap like it does to me?

I've gotten the 35000volt+ zap from bad wires on my truck, but there isn't much force behind that.

can a 330v 80uf do some damage?

[FalconGuy016]

I did that to myself once on accident... scared me so bad and it hurt (I was trying to get the flashing portion of the camera out causae I wanted to play with it )

[ChucktheMAGician]

Re: zapping people with disposable camera capaciters

Originally posted by rhetor22
I've gotten the 35000volt+ zap from bad wires on my truck, but there isn't much force behind that.

My car is only 12v, what do you have a space ship or something?

[rhetor22]

nah i have spark plugs.

[Sparq]

I used to spend alot of time as a kid taking apart broken electronics...my grand parents brought radios, TV remotes, and of course cameras...LOTS of cameras. I got countless shocks from large fully charged capacitors, and I'm ok (I think, lol).

Come to think of it, I suspect they may have been trying to kill me...

Edit: I doubt it'll do permentant damage...remember, it's Amps, not voltage that do the damage.

[madmatt151]

THAT IS SO COOL.

[Curly]

If you take a disposable camera and charge the flash you can then smack it on something hard like a table and it will flash. A couple years ago at summer camp we would do that to people in our cabin in the middle of the night (yes we were very, very bored.

[rhetor22]

ok how do i juice this thing up? i took it off the circuit board and now i can't get it to work. It might be fried but it doesn't smell like it.

Do i just hook up an AA battery like the one in the camera? The capacitor says 330v. Can it get this from a AA battery or was the one in the camera super special or something?

From my understanding of capacitors they absorb the power from the battery and discharge instantly, so the voltage can be greater.

[WickeDKlowN]

my firend has a camera rigged up with wires coming out that he shocks people with all the time, and they all seem to be fine.

[1stdeadeye]

Okay

Originally posted by Curly
If you take a disposable camera and charge the flash you can then smack it on something hard like a table and it will flash. A couple years ago at summer camp we would do that to people in our cabin in the middle of the night (yes we were very, very bored.

This one time in band camp we....

[ChucktheMAGician]

Originally posted by rhetor22
From my understanding of capacitors they absorb the power from the battery and discharge instantly, so the voltage can be greater.

If I remember high school electronics class right capacitors only store a charge, and they can only store what's coming in not increase it.

[rhetor22]

so all i need is a step up transformer.

hmmmm... need another camera.

[Paintballzer]

LOL, yeah a kid at school was doing that, he stuck 2 wires in where the bulb should be and was zapping stuff. He zapped his cat and it started to like cunvuls he said lol.

Yes capasitors only store a charge, it doesn't increase it.

[rhetor22]

ah-ha!

my tazer is complete!

350 volts of pure halarious fun in a 3" cube box with two metal probes sticking out.

This will be... fun.

[Ultimator]

A bastard from my school shocked me and a friend at a Stone Temple Pilots concert with one of those damn things and we beat the crap out of him.