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Easy, quick and cheap homemade high voltage capacitor

video Easy, quick and cheap homemade high voltage capacitor

Homemade high voltage capacitor made from aluminium foil and plastic container lids.

5 comments

Aug 29, 2011. 7:30 AMaessam1 says:

i don't understand the part after connecting the clips
how did you make this spark ?

Sep 5, 2011. 9:16 PM

Alex1M6 (author) says:

Here, you can use one of those hand held bug zappers to charge them up.

Aug 29, 2011. 7:45 AM

Alex1M6 (author) says:

I just connected it in parallel with the spark gap on my home-made stun gun, but you can use other things like a flyback transformer.

Aug 30, 2011. 11:01 PM

Computothought says:

I think what he means is, how did you charge the capacitor?

Sep 2, 2011. 4:31 PM

Alex1M6 (author) says:

Using my homemade stun gun.

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