is playing with high voltage illegal

[Uranium-235]

Re: is playing with high voltage illegal

don't all electronic devices come with the FCC warning "this device must accept any interference, even that which might cause undesired operation?"

besides how would you find me?

[PeteS in CA]

Re: is playing with high voltage illegal

CRTs were/are like very large sized glass dielectric capacitors. And the anode voltage for B & W was about 20KV, and for color about 30KV.

[PeteS in CA]

Re: is playing with high voltage illegal

Your Verizon cell phone?

[goontron]

Re: is playing with high voltage illegal

Your Verizon cell phone?

huh?!?

[c_hegge]

Re: is playing with high voltage illegal

In Australia, it is illegal, unless you are a licensed electrician. I'm not even supposed to do any repairs to the primary side of a PSU!!

[Topcat]

Re: is playing with high voltage illegal

In Australia, it is illegal, unless you are a licensed electrician. I'm not even supposed to do any repairs to the primary side of a PSU!!

They have such retarded laws down there....

[lti]

Re: is playing with high voltage illegal

In Colorado, it is illegal to possess fireworks, but you can still sell them. I never tried blowing up caps because someone will probably think I have fireworks.

Be careful or there will be a pile of caps in the picture of confiscated fireworks they put in the newspaper every year around July.

[c_hegge]

Re: is playing with high voltage illegal

Fireworks are also illegal here (unless you're licensed), but that doesn't stop me from exploding capacitors.

[goontron]

Re: is playing with high voltage illegal

In Colorado, it is illegal to possess fireworks, but you can still sell them. I never tried blowing up caps because someone will probably think I have fireworks.

Be careful or there will be a pile of caps in the picture of confiscated fireworks they put in the newspaper every year around July.

it is illegal to possess fireworks In Colorado!!? oh shit i hope the lakewood colorado PD doesn't see my closet!

[Uranium-235]

Re: is playing with high voltage illegal

I think for the most part its illegal in the city, but not the country. So, instead of setting fireworks off in the city, where there are close fire stations, mostly cement isolated of burnable areas, lets set them off at night in wide, open grassy areas where you can't see actual fires until they're pretty damn big.

makes sense to me

[Topcat]

Re: is playing with high voltage illegal

you can buy fireworks year-round in MO.... FWIW, I haven't bought fireworks in 5+ years.

[ben7]

Re: is playing with high voltage illegal

Off topic, but I just have something to share about fireworks.

We sometimes get fireworks. Here in NJ, selling fireworks is illegal, and buying them is legal (I.E. buying them as a resident of NJ). However, PA, the neighboring state, allows fireworks to be sold. Only to non PA residents though!

Across the border, in PA, there is a whole community of fireworks stores, since NJ residents come to get them.

P.S. one time when I was a bit younger, we were lighting off bottle rockets and the neighbor called the po-po on us! Well, the police got here,and the officer saw my parents supervising me. He decided not to take the fireworks away . (Phew) He even said that he sets off fireworks too, even though they are illegal!

[joshnz]

Re: is playing with high voltage illegal

Not exactly - I once got the bright idea to get "free" electricity via making a giant inductor from some heavy surplus copper cable and a 55 gallon drum

I buried it near some high voltage transmission lines next to my house, and I got my free electricity!!

until the power company figured out where their line loss was!

lucky I did not go to jail on that one - lol




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Yes u will find that is theft in almost any country.

[DJduck]

Re: is playing with high voltage illegal

High voltage not allowed? What about 2v? And let's say 400A? I used an old microwave transformer, and replaced the secondary coil with two turns of 2 AWG wire. It doesn't kill motherboards, it melts them

[RJARRRPCGP]

Re: is playing with high voltage illegal

They have such retarded laws down there....

QFT! Reeks of totalitarianism!