[TheForge] Battery technology (was Cordless drills)

[Andrew Vida]

Jerry Frost wrote:

> It damn
>> near burned down the lab, luckily no one was hurt but it scared the 
>> s**t out of every one in the lab at the time.

> Oh I don't know Jim. I kind of like scaring the lab rats. Unfortunately 
> it's a soils lab so there isn't much to explode or burn, of course this 
> just makes it a little more challenging.

	When we had our offices (Comp sci) in the EE building at CCNY, my 
demented cohorts and I used to love blowing up capacitors.  It all ended 
one day when I just had to go over the line and connect a 60K mF 
electrolytic can to the 660V lines in the office.  I lowered it out the 
window and we threw the lever.  Short beat... KABOOM!  You can still see 
the divot taken out of the bricks.  We were on the way down the stairs 
to exit the building just as campus security was heading up.  The 
chairman tried to pretend he was upset about it, but George Ross had a 
sense of humor.  We skated. :) :) :)  I'm sure that today we'd go to 
prison as terrorists.  Can't have no fun no mo'.