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This fellow puts 2000 volts through an LED. It doesn't last long.

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They dont make resistors like they used to  :-)

couldnt he find an 82k  50 watt resistor in the drawer ?

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Isn't it tantalum caps that go bang hooked in reverse?

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I thonk you must have missed out on some fun in your youth GoForSmoke :-) 

   Normal electrolytics used to make a great explosion, even now with the precut cross on the top they can still explode or make a hissing smoke stream as the can ruptures at the top.

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In my youth it was KClO3, S and Al powder and once I had a kilo of Na metal. Later on I learned how much safer KClO4 and Al are. I don't compare exploding capacitors to any of those.

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When I was about 14, I was in the garage switching on a power supply I had just built for the old "19 set" tank wireless from army surplus store.
I had the headphones on, and there was a delay as the rectifier valve warmed up and put 300 volts on the main electrolytic capacitor ( that I had wired reversed )
The hum started building in my ears, and my Dad proudly walked into the garage with his mate to show off what a boffin his son was.

The bang was deafening,  the can of the cap shot down the garage, followed by a spiral of smoking aluminium foil.

I don't think Dad ever mentioned my hobby to his mates after that.

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" Later on I learned how much safer KClO4 and Al are"

I am useless at chemistry,  is that the mix that catches light when a drop of water gets on it ?
 I know it was crystalized something or other  with aluminium filings.

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tants will also explode and burn if abused

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The guy had two hundred and forty-bleeping-four used 9V batteries on hand?!!?!!?

The LEDs were actually a rather anti-climactic yawn. What was really amazing about that video is that he had enough uncluttered space to plug all those batteries together and lay them out flat.

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Now if he'd put his tongue on it, that would have been interesting.

Like those Darwin awards.