| Slo-mo limesplosion! |
| High Voltage - Electrodestruction! |
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On Halloween night, we dressed in our finest mad scientist garb and set up the capacitor bank in the back yard. Using a mouse trap as a rudimentary contactor, we set up a high voltage impulse circuit. The circuit was run through a piece of citrus fruit, leaving a gap between the conductors inside. When triggered, a high energy arc formed inside the fruit, causing a massive and catastrophic expansion of vaporized citrus juice. The thick skin of the fruit allowed a large amount of pressure to be built before it ruptured, resulting in an explosion! We captured this on camera at 240 FPS: This is the first in a long line of experiments for testing our high voltage discharge system.
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