Hi Guys,

There are a bunch of (possibly mad) individuals that mess with lots of high
voltage stuff on the net.. Do a search for "Exploding Wire" and that should
get you going..

Basically you need a big HIGH voltage (5KV?) cap, charge it to several
thousand volts and discharge using a spark gap to dump the current into a
small wire.. Kilojoules of energy are not to difficult to achieve.

Also, while your wasting the rest of you day marvelling at what some of
these people are doing have a look at some "Can Crusher" stuff :) Some of
the can crushers are "switched" by dropping a sacrificial piece of copper
into a spark gap which then vaporises it..

BTW: Yes this is mind bogglingly dangerous. Don't try this at home kids. :)

Ash.

> Perhaps one way would be to use two steel rods with a
> bead of copper between their ends (like a spark gap)
> and zap. The tricky bit might be getting adhesion of the
> copper vapour to the ceramic. Hey, if it worked it could
> be a neat way to put your own logo onto a chip

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