is playing with high voltage illegal

[RJARRRPCGP]

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They have such retarded laws down there....

QFT! Reeks of totalitarianism!

[DJduck]

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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

[joshnz]

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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.

[ben7]

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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!

[Topcat]

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

[Uranium-235]

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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

[goontron]

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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!

[c_hegge]

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

[lti]

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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.

[Topcat]

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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....

[c_hegge]

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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!!

[goontron]

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Your Verizon cell phone?

huh?!?

[PeteS in CA]

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Your Verizon cell phone?

[PeteS in CA]

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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.

[Uranium-235]

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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?

[Elysarian]

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Flyback belts... that takes me back to the days when I was working in a rental shop refurbing TV's (old thorn sets with delta gun tubes and triplers!) as cheapo rentals for our elderly customers.

The worst part was that those old tubes could keep a charge for a very long time (ever pick up a tube and have one hand on the aquadag, the other just close enough to the 1st anode cap? )

I found the worst jolts came from when I was working on cars and bikes though - the HT on there bit harder than anything I got from a LopTx...

[Topcat]

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I've been bit by enough flybacks to know that I use caution when around HV.....and thats pretty mild/low current compared to a lot of other sources of HV... Be careful....but illegal? Not unless you're causing some kind of disturbance or interference with it.

[PeteS in CA]

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What Kiriakos said! High voltage is not something to play with! I work with 1KV-10KV P/Ss these days, not super high energy, but definitely very unpleasant if you get "bit" (I've gotten 1.2KV once, 1.6KV once and 4KV once, in a little over 4 years - BTDTGTTS).

[theOracle]

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as long as i don't hook into the house wiring there are no limit to what i am allowed to do. apart from noise, smoke,fire,interference.

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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[Kiriakos GR]

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Laws & safety regulations are not the same.
Even when you are about to perform an experiment many precautions have to be taken.
Smart guy is the one who is capable to use experiments as one form of training, cheap laughs and pranks with electricity is a plain sigh of stupidity.
Basically no one gives a shit if you will live or die from the people who are watching the show, only your family members will drop tears for your loss.

Also the most stupid and unrealistic thought is the one which some people think that such extreme experiments with Tesla coils is an act of bravery.

I am an professional electrician which haves come close to huge electrical sources, I am always thinking before I do even the smallest move, that's how I am staying alive its day.