Fun with electrocution
 

My dad wanted to throw away his eight year old pentium 3 computer so I disassembled it and am planning on selling all of the parts except the power supply. Why not the power supply? Because a friend and I came up with a brilliant idea to strip the wires of it and turn it into a mini tesla machine. We plan on hooking up the exposed wires to various items and turning the supply on to see what happens. We plan on zapping everything we can think of (within reason and safety) culminating in us tying all of the wires to pieces of the interior of the supply itself and videotaping the results...for science!

Any ideas of what we should electrocute? Right now I only have a couple small household items and food (peeps!) on the list. Don't worry, we are taking all necessary safety measures.

Pickles? Ants? Ice? Ants ON ice? Frozen Pickle?!

Really, you may have something with this...

I would like to offer these FOR SCIENCE!

http://www.angelfire.com/80s/sixmhz/trashy.html

http://br.youtube.com/watch?v=oNrgXtCu4aU

Zap the components... Well, Pentium III stuff doesn't flog for much these days anyway so you may as well.

I would fry the components, but there are already youtube videos of that and none are very exciting.

Fry them! In batter and oil!

That...that's GENIUS!

Okay, try zapping the motherboard with all the components plugged in and see if you can get a POST beep.

I dunno... What about fruit?

Simple is elegant. Zap a soda like coke or better yet, DIET coke. Maybe you'll get a diet coke and mentos type of reaction.

I don't recall off the top of my head the ohmic value of air, but I'm pretty sure you're going to need a ridiculously high amp rating to cross even a short distance. The resultant voltage will be quite dangerous, if you can even pump out enough juice from what I would suppose to be a 10vdc nominal output power supply.

Not sure how you would do that, heh.

I'd be interested in a few of the technical specifics if you had them. The resistance value of the distance of air you wish to arc a bolt through and the amp rating of the power supply.

Several minutes of plumbing google for the ohm value have been fruitless :(

I actually should never have said "tesla machine". I really mean that we're just going to wire up stuff, zap it and see what happens. Sorry if I confused anyone.