Cool. I almost caught fire...
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Topic: Cool. I almost caught fire...
Posted By: DeTrevni
Subject: Cool. I almost caught fire...
Date Posted: 25 August 2006 at 10:51pm
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Well, I was surfing the interwebz and I felt my pocket get warm. Then warmer. Then bleedin' hot! As it turns out, I had a 9v battery and some change in my pocket. The change completed the circuit in my pocket and the rest is painful. The battery was really painful to touch when I first pulled it out, and still is really hot... Thoughts? ------------- Evil Elvis: "Detrevni is definally like a hillbilly hippy from hell" 
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Posted By: a5Tpp789
Date Posted: 25 August 2006 at 10:54pm
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wow that must have short circuted it wierd but cool gonna try lol -------------  if you put 500 dollars into an A5 it is still an A5
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Posted By: ¤ Råp¡Ð F¡rè ¤
Date Posted: 25 August 2006 at 10:54pm
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I'll have to try that. And why did you have a battery in your pocket? ------------- 
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Posted By: oreomann33
Date Posted: 25 August 2006 at 10:55pm
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That happened to me once, and then I experienced a massive erection for several hours. ------------- 
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Posted By: Monk
Date Posted: 25 August 2006 at 10:56pm
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I guess you could say... You were getting hot in the pants. AH HA! |
Posted By: DeTrevni
Date Posted: 25 August 2006 at 10:58pm
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I took my Rainmaker to my proshop, and I disconnected the battery and shoved it in my pocket. Man... It's still really hot... ------------- Evil Elvis: "Detrevni is definally like a hillbilly hippy from hell"
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¤ Råp¡Ð F¡rè ¤ wrote:Posted By: choopie911
Date Posted: 25 August 2006 at 10:58pm
| I remember a science project I had years and years and years ago in elementary school, someone switched the wires to short out the battery, so the whole thing got really hot, etc. I wasnt happy. |
Posted By: BooksAndLeaves
Date Posted: 25 August 2006 at 11:18pm
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putting two together is fun cause one pops
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Posted By: DeTrevni
Date Posted: 25 August 2006 at 11:20pm
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I'll have to remember that... ------------- Evil Elvis: "Detrevni is definally like a hillbilly hippy from hell"
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Posted By: Da Hui
Date Posted: 25 August 2006 at 11:20pm
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Posted By: evillepaintball
Date Posted: 25 August 2006 at 11:26pm
| try connecting 87 9volts, and shocking yourself with them. thats 783 volts. I personally didnt, but i witnessed it. Im a techie in my schools theatre and we use 9volts for our wireless mics. we use 20 per show with new batteries for every night. so we have a schload of barely used 9vs at our disposal. we made a chain, + to - to + and so on, with 87. a fellow techie wanted to conect the 2 ends together to complete the circuit. he put his knee down on the middle of the chain and when he brought the 2 ends together, an arc jumped from the batteries into his leg. he was on the floor a=under a table when he got shocked, the shock made him jump up real fast. he scraped a very good amount of skin off his back, but didnt even know about it untill i pointed it out to him. after that we stuck to using patch cables to draw arcs about 2" long off the positive terminal, it was pretty sweet. |
Posted By: Monk
Date Posted: 25 August 2006 at 11:30pm
I dont think you realize how hideously dangerous that is. 2 9volt + one capaciter = dead. |
Posted By: Mr. Ahmadinejad
Date Posted: 25 August 2006 at 11:34pm
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Posted By: DeTrevni
Date Posted: 25 August 2006 at 11:35pm
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Well, if you must know the gruesome details, I was on PBnation... ------------- Evil Elvis: "Detrevni is definally like a hillbilly hippy from hell"
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Posted By: pimptastik
Date Posted: 25 August 2006 at 11:36pm
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did u up my threads for me?
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Posted By: DeTrevni
Date Posted: 25 August 2006 at 11:38pm
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... Wanna buy some MS Paint art? ------------- Evil Elvis: "Detrevni is definally like a hillbilly hippy from hell"
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Posted By: Mr. Ahmadinejad
Date Posted: 25 August 2006 at 11:40pm
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Posted By: pimptastik
Date Posted: 25 August 2006 at 11:40pm
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NO SELLING ON THE FORUMS!!!!!!1eleven!!
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Posted By: DeTrevni
Date Posted: 25 August 2006 at 11:45pm
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OMG!!! I R SO SRY!!!!!11!! ------------- Evil Elvis: "Detrevni is definally like a hillbilly hippy from hell"
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Posted By: White o Light
Date Posted: 25 August 2006 at 11:52pm
genius good sir. Pure genius. ------------- 
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Posted By: TEHGANGSTER
Date Posted: 25 August 2006 at 11:55pm
awesomeness dude ------------- 
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Posted By: Paintblcrayz
Date Posted: 25 August 2006 at 11:57pm
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Posted By: evillepaintball
Date Posted: 26 August 2006 at 12:07am
[/QUOTE] you may be an electrician, but I can assure you it happened. you can believe me or not, doesnt matter. I know what I saw, and so does everyone else that was in that room. |
Posted By: skh711
Date Posted: 26 August 2006 at 12:09am
------------- Setup: Tippmann 98 Custom E-bolt 14" All-American Barrel 12v Revvy Double Trigger 68/3000 Pure Energy tank |
Posted By: evillepaintball
Date Posted: 26 August 2006 at 12:09am
Dangerous or not, it was hella fun. we did about 20 and got the whole cast to stand in a circle and completed the circuit that way, i was kinda surprised it went threw them all and still had as much power as it did when it came back around. |
Posted By: skh711
Date Posted: 26 August 2006 at 12:10am
------------- Setup: Tippmann 98 Custom E-bolt 14" All-American Barrel 12v Revvy Double Trigger 68/3000 Pure Energy tank |
Posted By: Brian Fellows
Date Posted: 26 August 2006 at 12:29am
| Why the small text? |
Posted By: High Voltage
Date Posted: 26 August 2006 at 12:36am
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i'll agree with the 10,000 volts thing and call bs upon your 9v arc story. my van de graff barely arcs an inch by touching it. however, it will arc a gigantic distance when you have attached an incandescent lightbulb to a pole then wired it back to the negative post at the bottom of the generator.
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Posted By: Brian Fellows
Date Posted: 26 August 2006 at 12:37am
| Your username makes it somewhat funny to read that. |
Posted By: evillepaintball
Date Posted: 26 August 2006 at 12:39am
| van de graffs are crap, i was shocked several times in physics last year. Anyways, I'll get a pic/vid of it this fall if i can remember to do so. If any of you guys come across a stash of 9Vs, try it. but make sure you draw it off of the + terminal or it will be crappy and small. |
Posted By: High Voltage
Date Posted: 26 August 2006 at 12:45am
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see that's the thing, i think some of you fail to note, it isn't the voltage that kills you, it is the amperage. hence why 20,000 or 30,000 charges carried across an arc to your finger from a van de graff don't hurt, nor will they kill you. i'd use mine more but it's been damned humid here this summer so it won't build up a charge very well..
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Posted By: evillepaintball
Date Posted: 26 August 2006 at 12:48am
| i forget, in a series of batteries like what i had, is it the voltage that adds up and the amperage stays the same or doe the amperage go up and the voltage stay the same? |
Posted By: Benjichang
Date Posted: 26 August 2006 at 12:52am
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I was hoping that you created this thread because of some sort of mishap due to you trying something that someone posted in your explosives thread.
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Posted By: DeTrevni
Date Posted: 26 August 2006 at 12:59am
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We haven't been so fortunate yet, but expect that to happen soon enough! ------------- Evil Elvis: "Detrevni is definally like a hillbilly hippy from hell"
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Posted By: Cyberdemon
Date Posted: 26 August 2006 at 1:12am
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ouch... well my cousin knew a kid who was lighting off firecrackers with a lighter an then he put the lighter in his pocket while he also had firecrackers in his pocket. well the metal on the lighter was hot and it touched the fuse of one of the fire crackers in his pocket. it was hot enough to ignite the fuse and next thing you know the kids pocket was exploding with firecrackers and he was kicking his leg and screaming trying to put them out. he won a nobel prize for that. ------------- http://imageshack.us"> 
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Posted By: brihard
Date Posted: 26 August 2006 at 7:35am
Actually he was just happy to see you.  ------------- "Abortion is not "choice" in America. It is forced and the democrats are behind it, with the goal of eugenics at its foundation." -FreeEnterprise, 21 April 2011. Yup, he actually said that. |
Posted By: Styro Folme
Date Posted: 26 August 2006 at 9:35am
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the same thing happened to my father a while back. His work gave everyone 9v batteries to put in their smoke-detecters...and it was that very battery that almost started a fire... how ironic!
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Posted By: evillepaintball
Date Posted: 26 August 2006 at 12:12pm
| 9 volts dont get hot enough to start fires, unless you are using something very fine to complete the circuit, like steel wool. try conecting 2 9Vs together, it will get pretty hot, but not too hot to handle. |
Posted By: Styro Folme
Date Posted: 26 August 2006 at 12:29pm
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...not really, i made everything up... ------------- X |
Posted By: evillepaintball
Date Posted: 26 August 2006 at 12:53pm
| awww... and it was such a good sotry too! |
Posted By: DeTrevni
Date Posted: 26 August 2006 at 1:51pm
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Eville, just as your 780 volts were able to arc, this battery got too hot to handle. It actually burnt... Plus, in the loose fibers of jean fuzz, nickel and copper conductor, and 9v of energy, it would seem remarkably easy to ignite something... I'm no electrician though, so I dunno. ------------- Evil Elvis: "Detrevni is definally like a hillbilly hippy from hell"
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Posted By: Benjichang
Date Posted: 26 August 2006 at 1:53pm
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Posted By: TEHGANGSTER
Date Posted: 26 August 2006 at 1:55pm
god dammit, that would have been sooo cool -------------
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Posted By: The American
Date Posted: 26 August 2006 at 3:24pm
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I'm gonna try this right now.
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