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Re: Anybody let the magic smoke out?
During the offseason I let the magic smoke out. I was working on one of the previous years robots and two of the pwm cable ends got together with the power on.......there was lots of smoke. PWM cable ends together= really bad news. The caqbles were melted together and I wasnt able to pull them apart. I let the magic smoke out of lots of things for fun though.......try a 12 ohm resistor at 30 VAC on an educational board so it is safe. Another idea for you teachers and tinkerers: try putting a burned out light bulb in a microwave until it explodes then leave the microwave running and watch the ball lightning come off of it. That wasnt my idea, i thought the robotics mentor/physics teacher was crazy at first for doing it but the result was awesome.

Even though I dont get hurt often I have gotten the reputation for doing crazy stuff in the lab. Its great to scare the juniors here at school by grabbing a hot 120 VAC wire. They get scared that you are going to release magic smoke, its great.