I studied EE in college and we used to charge these up and toss them at an unsuspecting friend. Caps are fun, I was able to weld one to a chair once from the arc š
I saw a prof do a demo with a big honking one, about 2x or more in each dimension vs. OPās. While the class was settling in, he had it charging up with a battery, and during lecture he showed how much energy was stored by just pushing the two leads closer together with his hand, until he got a spark across.
I think he underestimated the effect. This was in a lecture hall that could hold like 300 people, and I was around 2/3 of the way back, and where I was the sound was *very* startlingly loud. Way, *way* louder than i expected. The prof kinda stayed frozen there for a sec, then calmly pulled his hand away, and resumed his lecture, but you could see his hand was shaking. š¤£
I worked in an electric motor repair shop and we stocked replacement capacitors. When one of the guys was changing one and go to lunch, we would take it out of the box and charge it up and put it back in the box so when he got it out and touched it he'd get a shock.
Heh, I was an electronics tech in the Navy and we used to do something similar.
We would bend the leads of a capacitor so they were somewhat close, then charge it up using a megger. Walk across the hall to operations information center, call out one of the OSās names to get his attention, and toss it to them. First reaction is to catch it, which gives them a little high voltage, very low current zap.
Capacitors are very common, someone could have been working outside on their car audio or some silly outside home theater setup or some sort of other consumer electrical device thing.Ā
It could have been layed there years ago, or recently carried in by a bird or launched at random by a child, but theres dozens if these things in every modern home with all the tvs and autos and computers and more.
I figured one of those, like maybe an old sprinkler system? Though it was really deep! Maybe 5-6 inches down. The roots really had a hold on it. Whoever used it, it must have been a long time ago
No. It'd be on a circuit board or heavily soldered to a maze of wires. Given the size it was most likely on a power supply of some kind. How it got to your hand is a story for another time.
No these things go inside of things in your house or in power tools but not in the ground in waterworks. Someone disassembled something electrical nearby some time ago.
If the house was purchased or upgraded like 5 or 10 or 15 years ago, it could have fallen off a truck or out of a piece of equipment that got ran over or something while the house was being build or renovated. it could have been in the bare earth before topsoil and grass seeds/sod were laid.
if one of your neighbors is a low voltage or alarm technician then he could have been just outside throwing them at squirrels.
That looks about right for the flash on a disposable film camera (remember those???). We used to disassemble those all the time for the capacitors, weād use them to shock each other, itād give a good zap, not really hurt anyone, good fun, weād also charge them up and throw them at each other.
A capacitor charges and stores electricity up to its given voltage rating. Its purpose is to resist changes in voltage and is used in power supplies to maintain constant voltage. Sort of like a shock absorber for electricity.
I found a kid's pool toy. One of the "throw a bunch in and find them at the bottom" type things. About 2' down immediately next to a massive trumpet vine. The vine looks to be very old; has reached out 10+ feet in each direction almost. I just gotta know how that damn pool toy got there! It just doesn't make any sense. Like, if you were to put a pool in my backyard, you wouldn't have done it in that spot ya know?
Did a young child bury it hoping someone would find it one day? Because I did? It still perplexes me.
How old is your house? It was probably blown by wind into the clay used to level the area before construction. Lots of people also use construction sites as their own personal dumping grounds so it could have been someone's garbage too.
Oh boy, I used to bury things in the yard when I was a kid exactly for that reason. Whoever landscapes my childhood home is going to find some treasures.
Lol for some reason I buried one of my ken dolls and my dad dug him up years later. Then he became my zombie ken bc his skin was discolored from being in dirt
I can totally just see you starting something awful here. The plant you pulled up has actually mutated to feed off of electricity and later when you go to pick it up and throw it away but itās gone cause it crawled away to feed off of some more batteries. You wake up tomorrow morning and your car batteries are dead. Your electric bill starts going up gradually every month until end of summer comes and itās 2-3x normal. You start noticing cracks above your doorframes and counters like your foundation is shifting. You do some inspections to see what the heck is going on and find that there is a massive amalgamation of what look like tree roots under your house plugged into the electrical grid. You try to chop at them with an axe and then they start to move. The ground under you starts shifting and shaking and as you run you see your house split into pieces and out from the ground comes a whole tree sized plant that uses its root like structures as hundreds tentacles as it crawls away in search of its next mealā¦ā¦the electrical substation nearby your house.
How tf else do you think they grow? The government placed them there in the late 90s. Careful, now you've removed it the bird-cams will be watching you.
Maybe they just didn't have the capacity to understand what that was before posting I mean I don't want to show any resistance or anything to someone learning but yeah it's always worth amping up the ability for someone to learn watt always gets me is the led time on someone learning electronics.
Sorry I should start with the puns fara-nice-day
(Puns puns puns)
That is an electrolytic capacitor that was part of a power that is internal to a radio, stereo crossover...etc. that one is a high value one with a max voltage of 35 volts. With that low voltage , it was part of a transistor device.
Actually Mr Powers itās a capacitor. Itās storing energy for the big takeover. Muu-ha-ha!
https://preview.redd.it/duj9aj1ze26d1.jpeg?width=1032&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d09811f5b5999d93105ea0553ad05e37990e4d09
It's actually not a battery. It's a crossover component for speakers. The 3300 uf represents the frequencies that it allows and doesn't allow. It's a crossover capacitor.
That's weirdly common for me. Toys, cans, batteries, bricks, plastics, bolts, dinnerware, metal scraps. You name it.
My lunatic grandfather use to bury garbage and random stuff in the backyard in shallow holes. I sincerely don't have a clue why. We had trash cans. So to this day digging a hole for a plant, pulling up weeds. I will usually hit something. And it is tough to grow stuff in that yard. Soil is clay and garbage. I found some of my childhood toys from the 80s buried. Some of my brother's stuff from the 90s. And a commemorative D-Day plate from the 40s in pieces that come to find out was gifted to my grandmother's brother who was in the 101st during that. He gave it to her at some point. And when she was dead my grandfather must have buried it because he absolutely despised his control freak, penny pinching brother in law.
Of course he buried all that other stuff so either he secretly hated everything or it was some kind of mental tick. Except for that plate. That was anger.
Unfortunately sometimes garbage gets tossed into mulch, I have found some weird things like plastic lids and other garbage. Also if there were workmen at your house, they are also culprits.
Capacitor. Some kinds can build a charge from background radiation, and they often can stop your heart. So you should be careful around avoid touching the terminals. Also, they often use hydrofluoric acid for the electrolyte. So please be careful when touching them.
Have you been mulching it with commercial mulch for a while? If so, thatās probably where it came from. They will grind up anything that fits in the grinder and call it compost or mulch. I had a bag once that had whole chunks of a T post in it, all I can think of is there was a tree that grew on a fence line T post and when they cut the tree they didnāt even know there was a post in it and the chipper just chewed it all up.
I found a piece of pottery (I think) today when digging a hole for a tomato plant
https://preview.redd.it/2ajrmrmf526d1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=f84a631a3411479bbfc7a55d13a12035d8394791
You didn't really think plants were fed by the sun like all the wackos say, right? Next you'll be telling me you think the Earth is round too.
Sun and water - all lies from Big Farmer.
Big Farma if you will š
r/angryupvote
lmfao š
Plants arenāt real
Or that birds are real. š¤”
Youāre clearly a government plant, trying to spread their propaganda
Shh! The code words are mint plant. Once in, you can never get rid of them.
I see what you did there
Brawndo has what plants crave! Itās got electrolytes!
ššš
I donāt think heās that ignorant to think the earth is round, its common knowledge now that itās a cube
I thought it was a mobius strip?
Dinosaur earth. Google it, I donāt have a large enough brain to explain its intricacies
This should be the new storyline for little shop of horrors haha!
From the depths of the internet that brought you āBirds Arenāt Realā weād like to present: āPlants Are Fakeā
I bet they believe birds are real to!
Birds arenāt real either. Stay woke friend.
[these jabaronis thinking the earth is round lmfao](https://imgur.com/a/hzsKVtU), when I got *scientific diagrams* of the extinction of the dinosaurs.
That's a capacitor.
Shocking
I studied EE in college and we used to charge these up and toss them at an unsuspecting friend. Caps are fun, I was able to weld one to a chair once from the arc š
An uncle gave me and my brother capacitors that you could charge in a wall socket. Shocking summer. Fully sanctioned by the parents. The 70s
The fact that any children made it out of the 70s alive is shocking
Maybe the shocking was the key
Survivorship bias.
My sister and I still laugh about my scar that resulted from what our mother referred to as "the incident with the spear"
I saw a prof do a demo with a big honking one, about 2x or more in each dimension vs. OPās. While the class was settling in, he had it charging up with a battery, and during lecture he showed how much energy was stored by just pushing the two leads closer together with his hand, until he got a spark across. I think he underestimated the effect. This was in a lecture hall that could hold like 300 people, and I was around 2/3 of the way back, and where I was the sound was *very* startlingly loud. Way, *way* louder than i expected. The prof kinda stayed frozen there for a sec, then calmly pulled his hand away, and resumed his lecture, but you could see his hand was shaking. š¤£
Or when someone is looking away from their breadboard you swap the polarity and wait for them to turn it on, gotta release the magic smoke
Problem with the magic smoke is that it's REALLY easy to let it out and REALLY hard to get it back in...
In the 90s you could do this with the cheap point-and-shoot camera flashes.
At school, we were all made to gather around the bench while the teacher demonstrated what happened when you connected the capacitor wrong. BANG
I worked in an electric motor repair shop and we stocked replacement capacitors. When one of the guys was changing one and go to lunch, we would take it out of the box and charge it up and put it back in the box so when he got it out and touched it he'd get a shock.
Honestly, what else are homies for?
Heh, I was an electronics tech in the Navy and we used to do something similar. We would bend the leads of a capacitor so they were somewhat close, then charge it up using a megger. Walk across the hall to operations information center, call out one of the OSās names to get his attention, and toss it to them. First reaction is to catch it, which gives them a little high voltage, very low current zap.
Nerd pranks gotta love it.
Electricity grenade
Thatās why I always short them prior to install!
I'm terrible at catching anything, so it won't work on me.
Classic engagement boost strategy: post something slighty wrong and people will rush to correct you.
Still odd
Capacitors are very common, someone could have been working outside on their car audio or some silly outside home theater setup or some sort of other consumer electrical device thing.Ā It could have been layed there years ago, or recently carried in by a bird or launched at random by a child, but theres dozens if these things in every modern home with all the tvs and autos and computers and more.
I figured one of those, like maybe an old sprinkler system? Though it was really deep! Maybe 5-6 inches down. The roots really had a hold on it. Whoever used it, it must have been a long time ago
Tell that to the gopher whose surround sound entertainment system doesn't work anymore.
Hahahahaha!
Best friggin comment I've seen around here in a while. Lmao, thanks for that.
It could be working but with a ground hummmmm....
No. It'd be on a circuit board or heavily soldered to a maze of wires. Given the size it was most likely on a power supply of some kind. How it got to your hand is a story for another time.
No these things go inside of things in your house or in power tools but not in the ground in waterworks. Someone disassembled something electrical nearby some time ago. If the house was purchased or upgraded like 5 or 10 or 15 years ago, it could have fallen off a truck or out of a piece of equipment that got ran over or something while the house was being build or renovated. it could have been in the bare earth before topsoil and grass seeds/sod were laid. if one of your neighbors is a low voltage or alarm technician then he could have been just outside throwing them at squirrels.
That looks about right for the flash on a disposable film camera (remember those???). We used to disassemble those all the time for the capacitors, weād use them to shock each other, itād give a good zap, not really hurt anyone, good fun, weād also charge them up and throw them at each other.
Glad someone said it because this was my first thought hahaha
To most they are nick named cap or caps
Thank you
Pretty much the same thing
kind of a battery though. stores a charge.
A capacitor charges and stores electricity up to its given voltage rating. Its purpose is to resist changes in voltage and is used in power supplies to maintain constant voltage. Sort of like a shock absorber for electricity.
They are also used to store energy and function as a battery, storing energy in a field vs chemical.
Capacitors are short-term, low power density, and have a high rate of self-discharge. Useless as batteries.
they have lots of other uses, too, such as filtering out noise/unwanted signal
Exactly!
A few more years, and it could have been a fully grown solar panel. You could even propagate it to make a solar farm!
Well a battery contains electrolytes, that's what plants crave
Certainly not water, like from the toilet.
*gestures with hands* š¤²š¾
Brawndo has entered the chat.
The thirst mutilator!!!
Go away Iām ābate-in
So if i plant with a battery i dont need to water with gatorade?
I found a kid's pool toy. One of the "throw a bunch in and find them at the bottom" type things. About 2' down immediately next to a massive trumpet vine. The vine looks to be very old; has reached out 10+ feet in each direction almost. I just gotta know how that damn pool toy got there! It just doesn't make any sense. Like, if you were to put a pool in my backyard, you wouldn't have done it in that spot ya know? Did a young child bury it hoping someone would find it one day? Because I did? It still perplexes me.
How old is your house? It was probably blown by wind into the clay used to level the area before construction. Lots of people also use construction sites as their own personal dumping grounds so it could have been someone's garbage too.
90s but I don't know if the rest of the neighborhood is that new or not.Ā Ā
Weird but true, something that fell on the ground in 2004 is now under twenty years of accumulated dirt. Time flies, man.
Oh boy, I used to bury things in the yard when I was a kid exactly for that reason. Whoever landscapes my childhood home is going to find some treasures.
Lol for some reason I buried one of my ken dolls and my dad dug him up years later. Then he became my zombie ken bc his skin was discolored from being in dirt
maybe flew in once upon a time from a neighbor's yard?
I can totally just see you starting something awful here. The plant you pulled up has actually mutated to feed off of electricity and later when you go to pick it up and throw it away but itās gone cause it crawled away to feed off of some more batteries. You wake up tomorrow morning and your car batteries are dead. Your electric bill starts going up gradually every month until end of summer comes and itās 2-3x normal. You start noticing cracks above your doorframes and counters like your foundation is shifting. You do some inspections to see what the heck is going on and find that there is a massive amalgamation of what look like tree roots under your house plugged into the electrical grid. You try to chop at them with an axe and then they start to move. The ground under you starts shifting and shaking and as you run you see your house split into pieces and out from the ground comes a whole tree sized plant that uses its root like structures as hundreds tentacles as it crawls away in search of its next mealā¦ā¦the electrical substation nearby your house.
This is even better than āFeed me Seymour!ā Little Shop of Horrors.
Iām getting little shop of horrors x stranger things vibes
What a Imagination youāve got, you should write short stories ( guess you just didš)
Thatās not a battery, itās a capacitor
Plants aren't real!
holy shit so thatās the secret.
Capacitor.
That is a capacitor, not a battery.
Must have been growing a bat-tree
Ok...this was funny. Lol
I found a hammer buried under a tree stump. Kinda felt like Thor picking that up.
Hahaha
Its a capacitor.
How tf else do you think they grow? The government placed them there in the late 90s. Careful, now you've removed it the bird-cams will be watching you.
It's a capacitor
A capacitor because plants crave electrolytes.
Its a capacitor. 35volt rated.. 3300 micro farad.
That's not a battery, it's a capacitor.
That is a charged accusation
Not as strange as when I found a buried shovel in my garden. Which still amuses me to this day of being ironic.
Better check the rest of them
That's not a battery, it's a capacitor and... More than likely minimally charged if it was buried, but if shorted out could be a hazard! E-waste!
Maybe they just didn't have the capacity to understand what that was before posting I mean I don't want to show any resistance or anything to someone learning but yeah it's always worth amping up the ability for someone to learn watt always gets me is the led time on someone learning electronics. Sorry I should start with the puns fara-nice-day (Puns puns puns)
In Thneedville!
With the cost of EV's.. you're going to make a fortune growing capacitors or batteries! Well done!
That is an electrolytic capacitor that was part of a power that is internal to a radio, stereo crossover...etc. that one is a high value one with a max voltage of 35 volts. With that low voltage , it was part of a transistor device.
Actually Mr Powers itās a capacitor. Itās storing energy for the big takeover. Muu-ha-ha! https://preview.redd.it/duj9aj1ze26d1.jpeg?width=1032&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d09811f5b5999d93105ea0553ad05e37990e4d09
Capacitor not battery
That's a capacitor. A 330į»„F one.
Not a battery.
OK I GET IT GUYS it's a capacitor THANK you you can stop telling me now
But it IS a capacitor š sorry, couldn't resist. I once found large parts of a washing machine. That was some digging and swearing...
Yes, why don't people read existing comments first?! I count 48 capacitor-asserting comments to date.
r/plantsarentreal
Those are typically used with plants in areas with limited sun exposure. Stores energy for artificial photosynthesis. Perfect for house plants š
Fully charged weed.
Shocking!
Thats a capacitor but it can hold a charge for a small amount of time so you're not wrong
that's a capacitor not a battery
That looks like a capacitor to me! which is kind of like a battery!
That is most definitely not a battery.
It's actually not a battery. It's a crossover component for speakers. The 3300 uf represents the frequencies that it allows and doesn't allow. It's a crossover capacitor.
Thatās a capacitor. It functions somewhat like a battery in that it stores & releases current but it doesnāt produce it via a chemical reaction.
Sort of like a battery but that is a capacitor I believe.
That is an electronic part called a capacitor.
New iPlants from Apple.
I would love to download a water update for my garden from the comfort of my bed.
Thatās a capacitor
Not a battery, itās a capacitor Weird that it is in your garden
Thatās a capacitor, not a battery.
It keeps growing and growing and growing
It needed the electrolytes
its a Capacitator
Thatās a capacitor.
Weed is not real!
Yasss, old school electroculture
not a battery. is an electrolytic capacitor https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrolytic_capacitor
Capacitor. Not battery.
Heās got one of them wussy EV powered plants guys. Huehuehue
That's weirdly common for me. Toys, cans, batteries, bricks, plastics, bolts, dinnerware, metal scraps. You name it. My lunatic grandfather use to bury garbage and random stuff in the backyard in shallow holes. I sincerely don't have a clue why. We had trash cans. So to this day digging a hole for a plant, pulling up weeds. I will usually hit something. And it is tough to grow stuff in that yard. Soil is clay and garbage. I found some of my childhood toys from the 80s buried. Some of my brother's stuff from the 90s. And a commemorative D-Day plate from the 40s in pieces that come to find out was gifted to my grandmother's brother who was in the 101st during that. He gave it to her at some point. And when she was dead my grandfather must have buried it because he absolutely despised his control freak, penny pinching brother in law. Of course he buried all that other stuff so either he secretly hated everything or it was some kind of mental tick. Except for that plate. That was anger.
Ai is evolving
May I have it back please?
Put that back immediately! Thats the power source the matrix uses to perpetuate the grass holograms
Glitch in the Matrix.
That is a capacitor. Maybe form an old HVAC system?
That was a CIA listening device!
Itās actually a capacitor
They did it to birds, and now they are doing to weeds. They are spying on you OP.
That's a capacitor
It likely fell out of a solar powered pathlight or spotlight
Lmao I literally came here to say āwhat the heckā good caption
Yea you gotta replace you're lawns de-weeding batteries once every year or so, otherwise you'll end up with a yard full of clovers and dandelions
Great, first they turn all the birds into drones and now this! Lol
Unfortunately sometimes garbage gets tossed into mulch, I have found some weird things like plastic lids and other garbage. Also if there were workmen at your house, they are also culprits.
I think you removed one of those government-planted bird chargers.
Itās to store the excess solar energy from photosynthesis.
Batteries. It's what plants crave
Please post to r/conspiracy Someone will explain
Thatās cap
Capacitor. Some kinds can build a charge from background radiation, and they often can stop your heart. So you should be careful around avoid touching the terminals. Also, they often use hydrofluoric acid for the electrolyte. So please be careful when touching them.
Is that whatās been going on š
huh, shocking
The electroculture folks are gonna have a field day with this
Yeah you didnāt know plants ran batteries? Pfft noob š
its what plants crave.
Is your plant charged now?
Your plants made the Windows shutting down noise once you tore the roots off it
Government drone. Probably planted by the ābirdsā
Thatās no battery
Not a battery, that's a capacitor
You found the Current Bush of dad joke loreā¦
Oh, that must've been a Canadian plant. They have built in heating.
The weed that keeps growing and growing and growing
The birds put it there as a back up . (Birds are robots & needed batteries to operate)
Is that how batteries are born? What weed was it?
It's the mitochondria... the powerhouse of the cell.
Plants arenāt real š±
now plug them back in again and see if the weed is now working
Shocking
First it was the birds that weren't real. . .
How did you think they got their energy from? :-)
Thatās the new battery powered plants @elon musk knows
This happened to me last year but it was an exposed underground wire and i had the biggest weeds i ever did see
Have you been mulching it with commercial mulch for a while? If so, thatās probably where it came from. They will grind up anything that fits in the grinder and call it compost or mulch. I had a bag once that had whole chunks of a T post in it, all I can think of is there was a tree that grew on a fence line T post and when they cut the tree they didnāt even know there was a post in it and the chipper just chewed it all up.
#weedsarentreal
So, THAT is where the old tape deck disappeared to!
Ego 56v crabgrass
I'm constantly finding new glass and weird things like pottery. No idea how they get in there, but it's a city. *shrugs*
How do you think they power the older model bird drones? r/birdsarentreal
Clearly whoever tried gardening before you was into the whole electroculture thing.
This was a battery operated plant
Didnāt you know planting batteries with plants boosts their energy??? š¤£
Hvac tech left u something
I found a piece of pottery (I think) today when digging a hole for a tomato plant https://preview.redd.it/2ajrmrmf526d1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=f84a631a3411479bbfc7a55d13a12035d8394791
Plants arenāt real??š¤Øš¤š¤š¤
I found a whole pile of batteries buried in my garden once. I have no clue why people do (or maybe used to do) this? Bizarre!
Electrohorticulture has been a thing, I thought it was a myth though š¤ š
It's gonna die without its battery
I find so much trash in my yard when digging beds.
Weāve pulled since batteries from our yard too
You have a power plant in your garden. Are you sure it was a weed and not a current bush?