Dave blows up some tantalum and electrolytic capacitors in front of his new 300fps Sanyo Xacti high speed camcorder!

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23 thoughts on “Eevblog #42 – exploding capacitors in high speed”
  1. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Adam-24 says:

    I've done this with a model train variable transformer, and electrolytic capacitors, when I was 17.

  2. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars ctrd says:

    blew a 330uf 25v cap the other day, sounded like a 22 going off in my lab!

  3. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars JustARandomHorse 666 says:

    I want to see some rifa ones blow.

  4. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Enrico Sirname says:

    Anyone here after the last mailbag (# 1410)?

  5. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars samuli nukala says:

    only thing that has changed is that he calls the camera bastard

  6. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars gon says:

    I want the 2020 remake with 10k FPS!

  7. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars audiodude[5171] says:

    What a classic.

  8. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Robin Sattahip says:

    240 vac is more fun.

  9. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Daniel Hildebrand says:

    Dave needs to revisit this today….

  10. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars says:

    2019 anyone

  11. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars fsr says:

    One day we blew lots of them on the technical school. I'm not sure what the professor was doing, but at some point, someone killed a big, naked-aluminium, ancient cap, and hell it didn't even explode, but it created quite some smoke screen. What the hell did they put inside them, anyways? The smoke smelled like piss.
    Well, at the end we all sort of evacuated the lab, and the one next to it because of the smoke.

  12. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Alvaro Martinez says:

    Who's watching in 2018?

  13. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars djentlover says:

    Yeah they do explode even with vents

  14. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars DGerber says:

    @EEvblog Revisit with the chronos high speed, maybe?

  15. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Nullpointer says:

    Bloody hell, you could launch a rocket with these suckers!

  16. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars mpherg says:

    lol my phone does 240 fps and full HD…

  17. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars VomAdminEditiert says:

    A few months ago i soldered some caps parallel on a stripboard to do some testing. So I hooked it up to 4 AA Batteries in series and tried like an idiot to get the connector in; didn't realized I tried to hook it up the wrong way. Still glad these didn't blow up, not even a single bump on the vents…

  18. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars p4tmchef says:

    Awwwwwww. You didn't start out with "HI"

  19. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Nothing\ says:

    Looks like the can of that 3rd cap just went shooting off like a rocket.

  20. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars A V says:

    learning about electronics …. watch EEVblog and see this, smile at the bag of capacitors inside my drawer! Ace video Dave!

  21. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars thehappylittlefox aka benji says:

    cool and dangerous I've seen a cap put a dent in a 10 gauge steel case !

  22. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars asdf says:

    Are you done with that capacitor i lent you? I need it for my mom's life support machine..

  23. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars feynthefallen says:

    You should get together with the slomo guys and see if you can borrow some time on their phantom.

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