Comment on xkcd #3106: Farads

• ricecake@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Depends on the voltage it’s charged with, but household current would give it more energy than a shotgun has.

  Realistically one would not do that unless you were dealing with something industrial. You would use them otherwise for things like dampening lower voltage systems that need a lot of current.

  Closer to the danger level of someone holding two exposed wires plugged into the wall.

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  • Treczoks@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    As long as the voltage is high enough, it does not need a whole Farad to wreck havoc. One of the first pranks they played on me in the lab was the “hey, catch” thing with a large, charged capacitor. Yes, I caught it. And I regretted it soon afterwards.

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  • SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Would that not leak a ton to the environment? Parasitic capacitance or smth. I ain’t not voltager.

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    • ricecake@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      If we’re getting into practical realities it would probably pop and smolder long before it got fully charged. Capacitance is how much charge something will hold per volt. Doesn’t say anything about how much charge it holds before catching on fire. :)

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