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On Fri, 29 Nov 2024 14:32:01 +0100, "Carlos E.R."
<robin_listas@es.invalid> wrote:

>On 2024-11-28 21:17, Cursitor Doom wrote:
>> On Thu, 28 Nov 2024 11:33:59 -0500, Joe Gwinn wrote:
>> 
>>> I have a similar story, from a colleague who had worked at one of the
>>> big accelerators in the US Argonne National Lab in the 1960s.  He worked
>>> in the powerhouse that provided 20,000 amps at 10 volts DC to the
>>> accelerator field coils (which were water-cooled copper then), delivered
>>> over a par of large copper bus-bars side by side.  One day,
>>> he happened to drop a big steel wrench across the buss bars. The wrench
>>> evaporated with a bang, and the power system carried on. Startled but
>>> unhurt, he called the accelerator control room and asked - they looked
>>> and saw no indication of that momentary short.
>>>
>>> .<https://www.anl.gov/>
>> 
>> This crazy English guy shorts out 50,000 Amps for a bit of fun!
>> 
>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0mGhhdPgXG8&t=7s
>
>!!!

Cool. I wonder is there is a market for 10,000 amp pulse generators.
Sounds interesting.