> For the need Jinx had it doesn't require high volts,
> just high current. Connect a thin copper wire to a
> 12v car battery and see how much copper gets
> deposited on the things near it... :o)

Oi mum, come 'ere. You're gonna be part of an
Internet experiment. Stand there, close your eyes,
hold your hand out

When I was a bad lad some friends and I shorted out
a tractor battery with a garden fork. Meltastic !!

Common arc welders use only a few volts at whopping
great amperages. The idea there of course is to have a
controllable process. Vapourising a piece of copper in
an instant is a little different in that you want an explosion
of the feed stock rather than melt it. Assuming I did find
a way to reliably blast a wire at 12V, how are the switching
components going to fare ? Caps and mechanical devices
aren't going to like high instantaneous amps through them
over and over

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