Camera Tazer

Step 6 Finished!

now you need to put the battery back in. after use,TAKE IT OUT.
to use, install battery, click flash, and touch the wires.

DON NOT TOUCH ANYONE WITH THIS!!!!!! 380 volts really hurts, trust me. Hopefully yours will not kill because they are low in amps

Comments

[skyhigh32]

ummm... i made this and it didn't work. any suggestions? i followed the guide and had no problems, i took apart a cat5 cable and used the smaller wires inside of the cable. i put in the battery, pressed flash, touched the wires and no spark, and i tried to touch myself and i didnt get shocked

[renscan2]

Lol, its funny because you tried it on yourself :P

[simfire687]

hook it up directly to the capacitor and it should work great. this instructable does it the less fail-proof way

[bylerfamily]

Make sure you connected the battery right.If that doesn't work then replace your batter.Check and make sure there are no wires touching inside.

[iloveairsoftstuff]

wow. you are a genius my friend. "hey this thing didn't give a spark, so maybe i should touch myself with 380 volts!!!!" genius idea. you, my friend are a regular albert einstine.

[amando96]

all i got was 8mA... not dangerous...

[bears0]

 yep a battery is 5mA (or 500mA) cant remember, rechargables are 2300mA, how do you measure amps anyway and how do you lower them if they are too high

[amando96]

 A battery is much more than 5mAh, but since it's a voltage step-up, the voltage goes up, but the amperage goes way down.
You measure the amps something is pulling by putting your multimeter in series with the load.
You cannot ''give'' too many amps, you can only "pull" them.
Say you have a motor that pulls 1000mAh(motor current varies a lot, but lets say it is a constant), if you wire it to a 4000mAh battery, it will ONLY pull what it needs to operate which would be 1000mAh

[cowscankill]

Make sure a stray wire isn't touching the other side of the cap? Make sure the button charges?

[GreenD]

I'm wondering at what voltages this will become dangerous, i.e. deadly. At 330 volts this isn't going to kill anyone, it sure will hurt like hell though. I'm planning on designing a more discrete tazer, just for a quick defense.

[cowscankill]

Umm.. so long as the victim is not old or has a pacemaker, then it doesn't really matter. Voltages aren't very dangerous, amps are.   This camera uses minimal amps, but outputs a lot of volts. Police tazers use lik 60,000 volts or something.

[JAMIEEIMAJ]

just send two wires straight off the capacitor, i had a flash gun for proper photography so i used that, thats powerful enough to really hurt someone, i then tried it with disposable camera (from pound land) and attached it to a metal globe, if you try this you can notice that it leaves bumps were it melts the the metal, so if the shock from the camera dosent kill you (it is posable)  than its really gone baddly burn you and if it dosent burn you how do you know its not crippling you nervous system (tesla style)

[sn0manX]

i tazed myself, then while trying to empty the capacitor i blew up thecircuit,,, big spark, big pop,,, major pain

[arirang777]

Please, make sure the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, especially the ones posted in BC, don't see this instructable or they will be tasering kids and people to death!! oh wait... never mind. Great Instructable by the way!

[cowscankill]

Lol ty!

[meat grinder]

i was nkk08 but i changed... this boy hit me on the bus so if he starts he`ll hear a high picthed noise...¬¬

[lowone]

remove the capacitor... leaving the capacitor installed on this thing can make it deadly and/or damaging as mentioned in other comments here.

the charge voltage is 350~380v at low current. the capacitor stores up current at a set voltage. And it is this high current discharge which is dangerous.

to get the effect of shocking all you need is the charge voltage at low current. so chop out that capacitor and you have something that will shock and have an significantly lower chance of hurting yourself or someone else.

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the camera flash has 2 transformers.. one of which is used to step up voltage into the 1000~4000 volt range. (flash trigger) However in the above example he only attaches wires to the two ends at 350v~

about camra flash

[ekulmeekul]

ummmmm a little heads, up if u remove the capacitor it doesn't work plus it has little amperage so unless it goes through their heart and they have a heart attack(little or no chance) its all good... although i do not condone using this on any living thing and the way police officers use them is brutal and unnecessary.

[helzangel]

ok just a little heads up discharging 330-360v into a person in a nanosecond is retarted just take the capacitor out and solder wires in its place and put a push button over the camera flash charging switch.

[sector47]

awsome!

[nkk07]

ill make this for protection +1

[cowscankill]

lol thanks

[aj_brown_99]

sweet! i built another one out of some crappy no name brand camera and it was only about half as strong as this one, plus i could put the camera back together afterwards. i shocked myself by accident and it made two spots of dead skin on my hand where it hit.

[cowscankill]

wow

[Nirjuana]

What if you just would drill carefully two holes to the right side and then lead those wires through the holes, then support the wires with some metal or hard plastic tubes and leave some wire out (otherwise it will be quite useless) and then isolate the tubes with some electric tape. Then it would be much more like a tazer.

[upinthecloude]

http://www.instructables.com/id/How-to-Make-A-Hidden-Kodak-Shocker/

[upinthecloude]

May i suggest hiding the cables? http://www.instructables.com/id/How-to-Make-A-Hidden-Kodak-Shocker/

Yours was pretty good. Everybody else's that i have read doesn't look like a camera at all. And also, if any of you have a new disposable camera to waste, you can just break the flash and connect the wires to that so that it will only shock when you take a picture. I don't see the point of that but w/e just fyi

[flash circuit 2]

instead of gong thru taking it apart can you just break thee flahs protector and attcht the wires and your done???

[cowscankill]

yeah, but you might break the circuit board and it wont work. PLUS, you need to be able to remove the battery.

[shayansh]

Please get better at taking pictures. Read about your cameras Macro mode, and try not to shake your hand.

[cowscankill]

okey dokey

[The Lightning Stalker]

Camera flashes only produce 330V. 7kV would be able to jump up to a 5cm long arc.

[thebluemartyr]

i built several tasers and i never hook it up to the flash, i always hook two wires to the capacitor, then attach them to two screws or two nails and then you only need to charge them and then make contact to short circuit them, il post it later