The coin border appears to take all the induction heat and gets disproportionally crushed. As if the coin was a copper ring. Perhaps the central concavity is simply reflecting the blast of light from whatever illuminator setup they used.
It would have been interesting to use that camera to watch for odd effects on a straight wire rather than a coil.
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I doubt that seriously, since your "survey" was designed to show that
most people call a "cell" a "battery" and had nothing to do with the
performance capabilities of any kinds of AA cells.
The supercap is much lighter and cleaner than the 12v battery.
No! Fun is fun; let us not be deterred!
Maybe a spark gap. That's easy, anyhow. Or even cruder, just a couple of copper straps for a switch, clapped together. Might be able to make a battery tab welder that way.
That's the surplus price--they cost a *lot* more new. Only cost insensitive apps can afford them right now, like green energy, magic cars, etc.
Your question was: "How many cells in the batteries?"
My (correct) answer included "One cell per battery" which I humorously derived from a 'popular culture' perspective rather than by actually doing the arithmetic to determine how many hundreds of cells per battery would be required in order to match the short circuit current of the ultra-capacitor.
My answer correctly showed:
1) That I clearly understood *why* you asked the question (popular but erroneous nomenclature).
2) What Larkin meant by the phrase "A couple of AA batteries can do that!".
3) That two AA cells in series or parallel fall stunningly short of the 2170 J specification cited in Bill's original post.
Note that you didn't ask "Please compare and contrast the short - circuit current performance of a selection of popular AA cells to the short - circuit current capabilities of the 3000 F ultracapacitor cited in Bill Beaty's original post. Determine how many AA cells are required to implement a battery capable of
2170 amps for at least one second, particularly considering ESR and contact resistance. Show your math."
That is literally a different question than "How many cells in the batteries?" , yes?
That's about what I did, in my youth. Every shot welded the switch contacts, and I'd have to pry tham apart between shots, replace them every 10 or so.
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3kA worth of MOSFETs could switch the thing--that would be fun--but it sort of diminishes the pioneering spirit. We want it, and we want it as crude as possible!
Yes! (I ordered a couple. I'd already gotten my own copy of that e- mailed ad and ogled the $15 capsaurus, but had held out successfully until now (no thanks to Bill Beaty for tempting me. :) ).)
When I was a kid there was a cool Scientific American N2 laser project that used a spark gap to nS-switch a massive pulse, discharging a HV FR4 cap--I always thought that was neat.
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