Capacitor

[Cuddly Ninja]

Yeah, I have touched the internals of disposable cameras at 330v many times, its quite a shock but nothing to bad to be honist, it does always seem to break the board however, even with the smallest spark, I have broken 3 trying to scavange the board, any idea how I can get it out without breaking it? I try to discharge it but the spark ruins it.

 

[NetGod3Com]

I have never killed a board while discharging the cap. You could try using a 1k ohm resistor to discharge it more slowly. I would suggest 1/2 watt or higher. The real danger in these caps and the circuits that charge them is taking a discharge from one hand to the other, the current then travels across the heart.

 

[Benm]

You can get a reasonably bad jolt from camera flashes indeed - not considered potentially fatal for those single use small flases, but painful enough to avoid repeating the experience

For things like tasers and electric flysquatters the process is 2 stage. It first charges a capacitor with a circuit like that in a camera, and then there is a second transformer that ramps it voltage up to idiotic levels. I've seen simple spark gaps used to switch the second stage, and they seem to work fine for the flysquatter.

 

[BShanahan14rulz]

I used cap/transformer/sparkgap as the simple powering circuit for my first laser :tinfoil:

 

[NetGod3Com]

I have even constructed a few capacitors for various projects. Construction varied from plate glass and aluminum foil to layers of mylar and metalized mylar.

 

[Flaminpyro]

Everone has pretty much covered it but I'm going to say it again, BE CARFUL WHAT YOU PLAN ON DOING CAN BE DEADLY :GUN: