Date: 16 Feb 1995 00:24:32 -0500
I guess this goes in line with TarlaStar's enjoyment of the electroshock
scene in "Cuckoo's Nest". These are plans to build an electrical shocker.
Play Nurse Ratchet at home!
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Shocker Instructions
These instructions will show you how to build a 9V-powered shocker; the
parts I specify will generate a quick, minor, non-painful burst, but it
could be adapted easily to increase the power of the "zap".
Parts needed:
1 9V battery
1 10K resistor
1 transformer (Radio Shack #273-1380)
1 relay (Radio Shack #275-241)
1 22F capacitor (Radio Shack #272-1026)
1 momentary switch (suggestion: Radio Shack #275-1571)
1 9V battery connector (Radio Shack #270-325)
Plus a soldering iron, a few bits of wire as needed, and a box to put it in
Total cost, without the soldering iron: about $10.
Here is the circuit itself; sorry that the ASCII representation is so
painful to look at (using high ASCII chars it's a lot more readable):
N.O. N.C.
[=========]
+-----------[-- --]-----------+
| [ / ] |
+-----------[-@@@@@@@-]------+ | (contacts)
(batt) | [ / ] | | +-----------------------o
----------- + [ | ] | | | +--VVVVVV---o
----- - [=========] | | | | (resistor)
| | (relay) | | | |
| --- | | | | |
| v --- (cap) | | +-@@@@@@@@@-+
| --- | | | ========= (transformer)
+---- -----------(-----------+ +--------@@@@@---+
| (switch) | |
+----------------+---------------------------------+
Here is what you experience:
- Press the switch; you will hear a small "click". Hold the switch down
for like a half second. (The capacitor is charging up from the battery.)
- Release the switch, while touching the contacts depicted on the far right
of the diagram; you will hear another small "click" and feel an electric
shock. (The capacitor discharges and the voltage is amplified via the
transformer, to the point that you can feel the zap.)
The explanation of the circuit:
Notice the current loop between the battery, the coil inside the relay
(the relay is the double box, the coil is the "@@@@@@@" inside the
relay), and the switch. The relay is a switch that you flip from one
state to the other by passing current through the coil. In the
"normally closed" (N.C.) state, the capacitor will discharge any and all
power it has collected. In the "normally open" (N.O.) state, the
capacitor connects with the battery and charges up. When you press the
switch, the relay switches to the N.O. position (that's the first "click"
you hear), and the capacitor picks up a charge from the battery. When you
release the button, the relay switches to the N.C. position (the other
"click"), the battery disconnects, and the capacitor discharges, going
through the transformer. The transformer steps up the voltage so that
you can feel the zap; the resistor by the contacts just keeps the current
under control so that the zap doesn't hurt.
The circuit, as stands, is quite painless: I built it to experiment
with acupuncture points and pain relief. To increase the kick, you
could use a bigger capacitor, and get rid of that resistor at the
business end.
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Subject: Re: Fun with electricity!
From: dynasor@infi.net (Dennis McClain-Furmanski)
I'm certain that's a fun gimmick, but it's just too, I dunno, HARD CORE for
me, ya know?
Me, I prefer to do it simple, like pound a couple of nails through a board,
wrapped the stripped ends of a lamp cord around each nail, jam a hot dog on
the nails, and plug the sucker in.
Nifty sparks, smell of burning flesh, scares the other people around you,
can't ask for more than that. And it tastes good too!
And if you're really into activities such as the 'shocker', why hell, you
can just eat the thing while it's still plugged in.
I tell ya these durn young'uns, got no sense of enjoyment from the simple
things in life anymore. Gotta have it fancied up with semiconductors and
such. Why, I remember back when if we wanted to look at a Dobbshead at
night, we had to set a whole village on fire so's we could read. Not that we
minded burning out the neighbors -- they weren't SubG after all. Just kept
running short of the damn things. Stupid humans just didn't copulate fast
enough to keep their numbers up. We kept trying to show them how, but then
that's when the villages generally caught on fire.
--
dynasor@infi.net The Doctor is on.
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Subject: Re: Fun with electricity!
From: clawgrc@mail.auburn.edu (Robert C Clawges)
In article <3i81h4$5jq@newsbf02.news.aol.com>, christuck@aol.com (ChrisTuck) writes:
> Or, for a curious "Illumination" stick a whole kosher dill pickle on the
> nails, instead of the hot dog. Oh, and do this outside, as the smell is
> AMAZINGLY bad.
On the contrary, electrified pickle happens to be a quite effective deodorant, and has been proven on a number of occasions to neutralize the most disgusting of household odors (such as the omnipresent and quite nauseating smells of the pinkboy-have-my-religion-or-burn-in-my-god's-hell visit, or that of newly waxed parkay flooring).
Pickles cooked at 120-130VAC (at 60HZ) also produce VAST quantities of oxygen (something on the order of .25L/10oz pickle), which accounts for their quite pleasant reactions in the olfactory sensory organs of those who are descendants of the Yeti.
BoB
(a.k.a. Rev. Palindrome)
"The opinions expressed here are probably not significant,
as the author is quite intoxicated."
- James A. Laurel
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