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- wcamammoths commented on tanner_tech's instructable Industrial Isolation Transformer From Trash1 year ago
- wcamammoths commented on seamster's instructable Tennis Balls in a Bottle (How-to!)1 year ago
View Instructable »It wouldn't work. To calculate expansion/compression, you must use the kelvin temperature scale. Room temperature is about 300k and your freezer is about 270k, so the ball would only be 10 percent smaller.
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- wcamammoths favorited How to Use UDK 3 Basics by wcamammoths3 years ago
You're right that the output voltage is still lethal. But the input was lethal if you just touch hot wire and ground. Output is only lethal if you somehow touch both output wires from the transformer. So, it went from lethal if you touch one wire to lethal only if you touch both wires. That's not bad for such a small investment. In the image below, a) is isolated and b) is not.