Posted: 10/16/2015 9:20:16 AM EDT
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I guess I'm glad I don't live in area of this lab..
More info:http://www.sandia.gov/z-machine/ Some VERY Heavy Duty Pulsed Power! Sandia's awesome Z-Machine is the largest pulse generator in the world. 36 Marx Generators deliver 18 Million Amperes for 10 billionths of a second for X-ray and fusion experiments. This picture is the "left over" energy safely dissipating in water long after the main power pulse has come and gone! The peak power in this discharge vastly exceeds that of natural lightning. 
I would like to see it in person..WOW Think I've found my new wallpaper.. 
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So I can buy Marx generators from China on eBay for $49. How many do you recon I need to take out a bass head hooptie one car length behind or in front of me? Hmmm, a truck bed full of capacitors and a upscaled magnetic field can crusher, toss a lasso of litz wire around said hooptie and compact the whole damn thing.
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Here's the site I got the actual photo from http://teslamania.delete.org/frames/shrinkergallery.html
These folks use HV to actuall shrink coins etc.. If you scroll down thru all the photos of shrunken stuff they have their set up photos & explanations of how the process works. Here's some caps for ya..
70 uF at 12 kV and 100,000 amperes per shot. They weigh 165 pounds apiece, ~1700 pounds total. |
