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Eero Ahonen wrote:
> Brian Elliott wrote:
>> "Alain" <ele### [at] netscape net> 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.
>
Yeah, me too.
Guess I have still some time left to do something cool with elec ;)
-- Arttu Voutilainen
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