[sdiy] (sot) Oh yeah... you think so ???

[patchell]

    Yep, got to say, I am GLAD I wasn't around to see that one....

harry wrote:

> Well LAST week we had a 1200A Inverter (welder) go... we suspect it was a
> defective cap (judging from the size of the crater in the windings... it blew
> from
> deep within).  Two 3300uF / 425V electrolytics (out of a bank of eight) went...
> with 700VDC applied.
>
> That were no wimpy M-80. That was a hand grenade.  It blew the laminated copper
> bus bars out over an inch.  No one was hurt... butI bet the operator needs new
> BVD's....
>
> OK top that one  (I'm sure someone has a nuclear story to share....)
>
> H^) harry
>

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