Hello, wait until you find out how much fun one can have with a microwave oven transformer. And then suddenly you find out that dying takes a loooong time. And it hurts all the time I've heard. Isn't it strange that the fun factor and the kill factor of things correlate that strong? Regards Gyro
microwave oven transformers are cool, make arcs like 6" long but im sure the secondary voltage would kill you dead if you somehow managed to become part of the circuit
Hello, yepp, I can second that. The magnetron is fun to play with, too. It's an even more sneaky and dangerous bastard (if you manage to get it running ). And then there is the beryllium oxide. Nasty stuff it is. So better stick with throwing things into the oven and watch how they behave in the field and you are save. Regards Gyro
Hello, the microwave oven transformer knows this quite well . You can simulate a squirrel in a ghastly MOT accident using a big pickled gherkin or a big frankfurter sausage. Regards Gyro
the more volts you have the more amps will flow if the resistance of your skin stays the same and those aren't current limited so its more dangerous than something like a neon sign transformer that has much higher voltage but is current limited it takes very few amps to kill, more like milliamps. i think the secondary those is around 2kV. it does have an upper limit on secondary current but its still going to be plenty enough to kill. just the sound it makes sounds dangerous
Hello, that's why they are such beasts or fun to play with depending on the point of view. The resistance of skin is fairly high, but once the skin breaks the resistance of the path trough a body is low. Everone has touched a 9 volt battery and nothing happened. Some may have licked a 9 volt battery and remember the speaky noises they made then . The difference is the resistance of the skin. But at 2kV the MOT gets you anyway. Regards Gyro
