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Old 04-11-2024, 06:28 AM   #3
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Default Re: 6V vs 12V condenser

Somewhat off topic, as a young man I worked in an auto parts store. As a prank, we would charge a loose condenser by pulling the coil wire off of the distributor of our propane powered fork lift and insert the wire end of the condenser into the coil wire. Holding the round base to ground on the engine and turning the engine over long enough to spark a couple times into the condenser put charge into it equivalent to being hit by a spark plug wire. If you only touched the round body you were ok but if you touched both the round body and the wire, you would complete the circuit and the the condenser would discharge. We shocked the crap out of many unsuspecting coworkers and at the time found it to be quite funny.
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