How to build a Taser for free!

Step 6: Enjoy!

You are done!
The tazer gives out about 330 shocking volts!
Okay, you can go shocking your friends or use it for educational and self-defense...

Also, I am not responsible for losing your friends after shocking them!

Have fun!

Comments

[tesla man]

what is the amps? could this kill u?

[PyroTrician95]

if you havent already figured it out, no it cant. unless you mod it. i have shocked myself many time making and redesigning these..hurts a bit though :)

[FrozenIce]

definately the best able of its kind... love it :D 5*

[ugv7821]

I used super Caps on 22uF and 500v, then i added three more batteries, and the power was enough to make an EMP that was capable of taking out a calculator at 20 feet of range!

[kuratano]

Soooo it shocked me and a pair of scissors...and now it wont work. all the connections seem fine. so idk...any help?

[jadams16]

There is a large chance that you destroyed the insulator inside the capacitor by "shorting" it out on your scissors.

[chuerta1]

"Also, I am not responsible for losing your friends after shocking them!" LoL!

[webtelles]

I shocked myself by accident... and does hurt

[eoj777]

i'm a total electronic noob but 'm tryin this, i got shocked a couple of times but then it doesnt seem to work. all my connections seem ok and the battery is good. could i have damaged the capacitor in some way or what?

[timvdhoorn]

 how do you turn it off??

[MediocreNinja]

 Take the battery out, i guess. Or, just put it in a REALLY safe place where no one would touch it

[Betelgeus3]

If the capacitor has been connected to a battery (and these are some SERIOUS capacitors) for any amount of time, take a rubber or plastic handled screwdriver, avert your eyes, and short the two leads of the capacitor. I've done this once with a capacitor that was charged a few minutes before, and it fused with the screwdriver. be EXTREMELY careful with these.

[ajyounes10]

how dangerous is it?

[OXI2vasyl]

I had already tested me, is actually quite strong, when I put the finger sprang up =D, but it is totally safe (if you have no heart problems or epilepsy)

[kiongson]

i just tried this and i got shocked. it didnt feel good. i felt kinda dizzy and my hand really felt buzzed.:'(
 

[sartan]

believe me this works!! I got shocked on accident and it packs a charge....be careful

[mayo291]

ya i was testing it in a dark room with a screw driver and it lit up the entire room like a firework ... wow this could be used to scare the crud out of someone i am going to test the scare factor on my friend i got shocked at a 1 seccond charge it hurt like heck and omg did it hurt in a dark room it looks like a firework

[declanthedork]

I'm gonna make one of these and shock kids named hunter with it.

[nrepak]

Sweet I happen to dislike a kid named hunter as well

[23Damon23]

Ha, nice, me too!

[bylerfamily]

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[nrepak]

I dont believe I know a person named Jesse

[girrrrrrr2]

i do and he isnt that bad of a guy... but even a 3 second charge will freak someone out...

[Plasmana]

Yay! Good luck for you! And yeah, I got shocked by my shocker a few times...

[laifalbert]

if it is at half batter. It can kill you at full

[ReCreate]

no,it is by far not able to be lethal,even if you put a 9v battery

[comander01]

The size of the battery doesn't matter, just the size of the capacitor. The battery affects how fast the capacitor is charged.

[ReCreate]

Well No,The Charging circuit Will Charge the capacitor At a higher Voltage according to the Voltage is input-ed. Now,The Battery Only Effects the Charging speed if the battery Outputs a higher Current.

[MediocreNinja]

Sorry for being so n00bish, just starting electronics. So, if I soldered a 9v battery connector to the thing and got rid of the AA, it would make it MORE powerful? And would this blow a circuit or anything?

[comander01]

O-kay. Thought that the microfarads affected the jolt that it put out, but I guess I'm wrong

[ReCreate]

No its mostly voltage.

[Syko Pyro]

High volts low amps hurts and high volts high amps kills. It only takes ~ 500mA to kill someone. comander01 is right though, if you substituted that capacitor for a larger one youd probably find that you would get a larger shock as as the voltage in the capacitor gets higher the force required to charge it has to also increase. Just think of it as an air tank, as the moreair is put into the tank, the more force is required to put it in there. But, if you have a larger tank then you have more air in it before the force required to put it in there gets to high. This would work in here but I think you would find that your batteries wouldn't be capable of supplying the amount of current required.

[ReCreate]

Ahem,It takes 50 ma,Learn your facts. And the Miliamps that go through your skin depend on the voltage,at 12V,with dry skin,it would let about a fourth of a miliamp. They would Supply the current,it would just take longer.

[nutsandbolts_64]

 umm, excuse me but isn't it 6 or .6 ma? All I remember is 6 and some .6 ma so i got confused. why did u say it was 50 ma anyway?

[ReCreate]

Don't know. That was nearly a year ago.

[Syko Pyro]

Sorry, I misplaced a zero. Yeah, i know. Me an my mates tried this with an electric fence capacitor we... modified... and he ended up going to hospital and put in an induced coma for 2 weeks. Bad mermories...

[ReCreate]

Ouch...

[Plasmana]

Seconded...

[ReCreate]

Your Back! *Hugs Plasmana* I have not Seen You Anywhere In Such A Long Time! Where have you been?

[Plasmana]

Don't get too exited, I might get sucked away from instructables to... Darkorbit. Again. I fell for one of instructable's AD's to darkorbit, and stayed there for a long time... :-(