Re: Big crowbar module for <4VDC?

Joerg wrote:
Phil Hobbs wrote:
Jim Thompson wrote:

[snip]

Your numbers match up to mine, protecting a 5V/20A system.

I saw about a 1000A pulse, only sound was like a faint "click".

High speed video of the fuse showed the whole segment vaporizing in
~1usec ;-)

Egg-nog overdose alert! What sort of video system was that, exactly? 10^6 frames per second and what, 1000 frames or more?


Check out this series:
http://www.dubtronic.de/galerie/1280/36/s_003.html

He did that on his kitchen table, gun and all!

http://www.dubtronic.de/galerie/1280/36/s_014.html

[...]



Very Edgertonesque, except that that's a pellet gun--they don't let them have real firearms over there anymore, I gather.

Cheers,

Phil Hobbs
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