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Re: gEDA-user: lost newbie



On Friday 06 January 2006 11:21 pm, DJ Delorie wrote:

> 120VAC into a 25v electrolytic.  Poof!  Out goes the magic smoke.

120VAC, or 400VDC (worked better) in to a Slim Jim (the kind you eat) gives *THICK*
white smoke, and a kind of greasy "ooze" all over the lab bench.
Fun at VoTech, years ago, to answer the question "What do you do with with,
500 Slim Jim's?", you can only eat so many...