I think my favorite part of this build is when you plug it in it starts humming
and when the hum is done you know you're ready!
in honor of thor ragnarok we're making a whole bunch of Thor's Hammer's for our
make it real series on this episode we're going to show you how we made this
electrified capacitor driven Thor's hammer it's really wear ear plugs
all right so we figured out how to place a capacitor inside Thor's hammer and if
it's pretty good now we have to figure out how to charge it to do that we're
gonna use a bridge rectifier and just plug it into the wall our bridge
rectifier does does it takes AC and puts it through a bunch of diodes so that it
is DC coming out and it's in what quarter waves or something I'm going
into a capacitor then it's just charged it to the peak value of the RMS peak
value of the sine wave for more information on how the circuit works and
to see the complete circuit diagram click the link in the description below
special thanks to did you keep for helping to provide some of the
components for this project now if you're to plug this directly into the
wall it would in probably blows to blow the circuit because the faster we try to
draw more than 15 amps while charging we're gonna put a resistor in series
with the charging circuit so it's nice and safe this is a 10 watts 5 ohm
resistor
the light flicker there but did the light flicker there
I use a piece of solder
and that's that's half the power that we're gonna be doing that and I want to
just I wanted to be discharged correct
and what did you use to discharge a piece of solder so yeah that was that
was 120 that was 120 we're gonna charge it up from 240
and if you want more power simply plug it in to an extra safe 240 volt adapter
it takes longer to charge this way still going yeah fill back faster up okay
simply put the cap back on which we hit with it's time mmm it's 240 volts but
since it's actually the peak RMS value of the AC sine wave that's more like 300
ish yeah 300 volts for hammer I should be pretty visible that's loud not bad
all right so stay tuned on the main channel to see the epic test montage of
this and all the other hammers we're making for Thor Ragnarok thanks for
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