Brian Elliott wrote:
> "Alain" <ele### [at] netscapenet> wrote in message
> news:4731f3f7$1@news.povray.org...
>> Once when playing with a small speaker, I pluged it in a transformer
>> and was prety unimpressed by the feeble low hum I got, so, I plugged
>> it directly into the wall socket, hoping for a loud hum. Use a regular
>> electrical plug, hook the speaker whires in to it, plug it in. Instant
>> POF, flash of light, small cloud of smoke, smell of ozone and burnt
>> metal, bursted speaker's dome. The coil's whires got vaporised.
>> At the time, I was about 10 or 11.
> 
> I did the same to one of those tiny 3-volt DC motors, like the cog-ended
> ones that are in battery-powered toys.  A friend bragged at school he'd
> plugged one into the mains, and it went really incredibly fast and was
> really hot afterwards.
>

Every time I read these I feel more and more sorry for myself for NOT
doing something that stupid (and cool :p) as a kid.

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