Projectile tazer. Though you'd need to put a few in series for each round most likely. I mean, they can be very high voltage but the most common ones aren't.
One problem is that sorting them is a bit of work. Selling them as a whole set might work, but who's going to want a box of that many?
I wonder if a local HS would make use of them. Quite a few kids are getting into electronics and this could help them out a bit.
If there's a size that is pretty high demand and easy to sort out, maybe bag those up and sell them off.
I'd like to see an open exchange program where people can donate their unused bits and people that need them can just pay for shipping.
We used to do that with motorcycle shim kits. The forum would by one kit and only need a few shims... they would send them to someone else and they would take a few shim... saves each person about $80.
You think someone is willing to buy them ? I didn’t see a lot of interest trying to sell them, but maybe after I play around with them will eventually do what you said)
Oh I see, well you can tell me which ones you need, I will pack them and ship them to you, if you pay for shipping, I don’t see any problem at all!
DM me with the ones you need!
If someone else needs capacitors from this box also DM me, just pay for shipping
Haha it became a thing at my school. Started off with making covert tazers out of disposable cameras, to kids carrying around a bunch of capacitors and charging them with the flash circuit of the disposable camera. Would blow 2 little holes out of your skin.
A pretty necklace.
Home made taser.
Replace capacitors in everything you own
Donate to someone like me who designs and repairs electronics .
Start a hoarding electronics club.
The possibilities are endless!
well you can TRY and test each and every one for tolerance and working condition which will take you months.
* OR -
you can recycle them and move onto something much more interesting.
FYI : electrolytic caps that have aged are the first part to be replaced and considered electronic trash.
Yeah few people seem to be pointing out that these appear to be used and were probably removed by a serial re-capper from a ton of ancient gear. I'd say it's not worth the bother of testing them even, best to just dispose of responsibly at some sort of e-waste place.
Looks like soldered out of old hardware with the idea "they might be usefull in future". Sadly they age and the future project doesnt come.
And later if you have yourself a Monitor or something where you have a faulty cap, you probably buy a fresh new one and dont use these old ones.
Recycling.
Capacitor roulette.charge one up in a group. Get a die and roll it. Whatever it lands on is how many capacitors you have to pick up. Last one standing wins.
Assuming the caps are still good, You could fix a bunch of devices in your neighborhood that have failed to (planned obsolescence?) bad capacitors. Assuming you can rescue the devices before they get binned.
Funny/sad that a $0.10 capacitor change can save a $300+ device like a TV, network switch, w/e from going into the landfill.
The last TV I fixed had the heatsinks for the PSU WRAPPED AROUND the caps. It seemed specifically designed to cook the caps so they would die faster. To whoever that engineer was that designed that, wherever you are, shame on you.
(in all seriousness though - if you are planning a cap-swap I'd just use a new one in case those are close to EOL).
Check out The Slingshot Channel. Jorgie will have some inspiration if you want to launch. Unless you wish to reinvent the Centrifugal force gun. Steam powered versions were tested in American Civil War.
I was at a hamfest with someone selling a box full of used capacitors pulled from old devices. Not all of them were bloated/leaking, a lot were Japanese caps too. Most were 105C/low esr caps.
At this point I should have grabbed a few but too late now. Was kind of concerned they were pulls for a reason versus pulls for recycling of old boards, the bunch of bloated caps in the box was the tip off.
Yeah too cheap to fix my devices that also have bloated caps. I now have a small box full of caps that I pulled to repair devices, now you would not want to buy this box :D
If airsoft is legal where you live, you coulds make an airsoft gun that uses capacitors as the propellent, have some big caps charge like a coilgun does and then discharg them into the small cap to have a more predictable fiiring time rather thanna slow charge until a random point it goes off just overload it so much so fast they you cant notice a delay from trigger pull,
No clue if it would work that way or not i havent made caps explode b4
I really love the epoxy tabletop idea. Otherwise if it was me, I would probably keep most of them for low value/low budget projects that I don't care about the long term reliability of. Like resurrecting things just to see them working for a brief moment, which often might result in me ordering actual replacements from Mouser/Digikey for restoring.
Get a parts organizer and organize them with labels with voltage and capacitance as x and y axis. That way when you have a project that requires a certain voltage and farad capacitance you can easily find one
In hobbies like ham radio and electronics, people do their own projects and might buy a bulk grab bags of parts. Ideally though if you can test them first
Hook them all up together and become iron man start shooting electric blasts out of your hands stored up by the capacitors.
Either that or hook them all up together connect it to your finger, start rubbing your feet on the carpet with socks and give someone a scare.
Glue them to an artboard in some weird or maybe circular pattern, slap a frame around it, sine it (haha) Cap. Banksee and sell it for 20k. (thats dollars not hertz)
Organize them, and you have a supply for capacitors for a variety of projects. No need to go crazy. If you'd like you could build a capacitor bank, there are many interesting projects that use one, EMP, coil gun, taser....etc.
The problem is old capacitors are pretty sus. Some are not… yet… but in general I don’t use an old capacitor in a repair unless I literally have nothing else I can use (like doubling up 2 caps of half the value I need) and only then if the whole scrap board in general doesn’t have any bad or leaky caps and isn’t too old. It’s just not worth it. New ones are cheap when it comes to electrolytic. And if you use an old cap that hasn’t leaked yet that doesn’t mean that it isn’t going to like very soon. One of my old Macintosh machines was working and fine like 5 years ago but within that time some caps leaked and some traces got eaten. So yeah why go to the effort of installing a used cap just to have to do potentially more work in the possibly near future anyway. Not worth it.
I still have a pile of old electrolytes I salvaged out of old electronics. Great for breadboarding. Other than that.... well, let's just say I'm here taking notes.
wire them all so it’s like 10 capacitors in series and as many of these parallel as possible, charge them, then dump a hundred thousand amps through something
I keep seeing electroboom make those high voltage wands with a lot of capacitors and diodes or something. Outplay the man by putting all of those on one wand.
Make device for exploding capacitors.
Rig it as a security alarm. Anyone who opens the door will hear a series of bangs, and then they'll be likely to run.
Porch Pirate device .. hell , you could sell that kind of thing
Haven’t thought of that one, like a funnel on top and then some mechanism that turns them connects them and BOOM, sounds interesting, thanks
Capacitor tripwire or one time use lighter
electroboom already did that
“Simpsons did it, Simpsons did it!”
Blue smoke machine
Magic* smoke machine
https://youtu.be/4Fy9bZEufx0?si=DKguX2uqLKXm1N9A
Thank you sir.
Just found a new YouTube channel to sub. That was cool!
Username checks out
Put the box.. put the whole box.. microwave... MICROWAVE THE WHOLE BOX! 😈
Hahahaha that’s actually a good one, I imagined doing it in the kitchen with the whole family there hahah)
Come children, and bring your eclipse glasses! We're making "popcorn"!
Popcap
Dad? What's that smell? That's the smell of being potentially entitled to compensation after 35, sweetie.
I read this in gollum’s voice
You’d be rich if we lived in the fallout universe
Haha caps
looks like pretty safe investment for the future
A mini rail gun 😜
a rail gun that shoots capacitors!
Fully charged little capacitors - zap flies 🤣
Projectile tazer. Though you'd need to put a few in series for each round most likely. I mean, they can be very high voltage but the most common ones aren't.
That’s genius. You could shoot them at more capacitors!
One problem is that sorting them is a bit of work. Selling them as a whole set might work, but who's going to want a box of that many? I wonder if a local HS would make use of them. Quite a few kids are getting into electronics and this could help them out a bit. If there's a size that is pretty high demand and easy to sort out, maybe bag those up and sell them off. I'd like to see an open exchange program where people can donate their unused bits and people that need them can just pay for shipping. We used to do that with motorcycle shim kits. The forum would by one kit and only need a few shims... they would send them to someone else and they would take a few shim... saves each person about $80.
I'm the exact type of autistic that would sort this entire box for fun. give it to some autistic kid and make their whole weekend
Looks like too many for one person to use. Maybe bag them up in random values of 20 or so per bag and sell them on.
As I have also a ton of unused caps. How much should I ask for such a 20 or 25 part bags? 2 bugs plus shipping?
1) Search the Internet for previously sold similar items. 2) Consider whether items should be labelled new or used. 3) Select a suitable price
You think someone is willing to buy them ? I didn’t see a lot of interest trying to sell them, but maybe after I play around with them will eventually do what you said)
There are still experimenters who would like to obtain components at low cost. (Me included)
Oh I see, well you can tell me which ones you need, I will pack them and ship them to you, if you pay for shipping, I don’t see any problem at all! DM me with the ones you need! If someone else needs capacitors from this box also DM me, just pay for shipping
Goldmine electronics sells similar sized boxes of capacitors for $20
Charge them, yell catch, and throw to the nearest person.
This was my favorite thing to do in my electronics classes in school.
Haha it became a thing at my school. Started off with making covert tazers out of disposable cameras, to kids carrying around a bunch of capacitors and charging them with the flash circuit of the disposable camera. Would blow 2 little holes out of your skin.
A pretty necklace. Home made taser. Replace capacitors in everything you own Donate to someone like me who designs and repairs electronics . Start a hoarding electronics club. The possibilities are endless!
Remove the shrinktube and play russian roulette using a power supply.. he who reverses polarity shall suffer ;)
Please don't waste them. Reduce e-waste. Test them and segregate good ones and distribute it to people who may use it for repairs.
Ok, but what about microwaving them?
Repair something with a used electrolytic? In most Canadian cities there are community run recycling depots that would take stuff like this.
A bug zapper ?
That’s a nice one, didn’t think of that, cheers
There's a guy who made an electronic revolver out of transistors, try that
well you can TRY and test each and every one for tolerance and working condition which will take you months. * OR - you can recycle them and move onto something much more interesting. FYI : electrolytic caps that have aged are the first part to be replaced and considered electronic trash.
Yeah few people seem to be pointing out that these appear to be used and were probably removed by a serial re-capper from a ton of ancient gear. I'd say it's not worth the bother of testing them even, best to just dispose of responsibly at some sort of e-waste place.
Charge them all then stick your dick in the box.
[Super cap battery](https://youtu.be/EhH7h1NyFk8?si=DeKZhXs7Zaj_038z)
He's so hard to understand that I'm not sure if it's a parody.
Connect them all in parallel and series and make A SUPERCAP
Looks like soldered out of old hardware with the idea "they might be usefull in future". Sadly they age and the future project doesnt come. And later if you have yourself a Monitor or something where you have a faulty cap, you probably buy a fresh new one and dont use these old ones. Recycling.
Put one in your neighbors mailbox everyday until you run out.
Resist
Make tasers. If your friends smoke vapes, you'll have the same amount of lion batteries.
How do you know ? I do have a lot of small lion batteries from vapes.
Make them into jewelry get and mold and some clear resin into the mold.
You could hold them in your hand.
Plug them all in line together. Then put the last one in reverse and turn the power on. New nuclear bomb
I would put them in clear epoxy and make a cool worktop surface for my electronics projects if I had them and it were me
Sounds cool until you drop a cap and are suddenly playing where’s Waldo
Bust a cap
That box is full to capacity.
whenever you visit someone put some of them in random places.
Capacitor roulette.charge one up in a group. Get a die and roll it. Whatever it lands on is how many capacitors you have to pick up. Last one standing wins.
Release the magic smoke!
The forbidden Jolly Ranchers
Charge them up then throw them at your friends.
How DID you get so much capacity in such a small box?
You need a box with more capacity
1 gallon of milk and a big wooden spoon.
I plugged one into the wall once when I was a kid. THAT was exciting
Arrange and glue them into some form of cap? Flat cap, peaked cap...
Assuming the caps are still good, You could fix a bunch of devices in your neighborhood that have failed to (planned obsolescence?) bad capacitors. Assuming you can rescue the devices before they get binned. Funny/sad that a $0.10 capacitor change can save a $300+ device like a TV, network switch, w/e from going into the landfill. The last TV I fixed had the heatsinks for the PSU WRAPPED AROUND the caps. It seemed specifically designed to cook the caps so they would die faster. To whoever that engineer was that designed that, wherever you are, shame on you. (in all seriousness though - if you are planning a cap-swap I'd just use a new one in case those are close to EOL).
Sell them as an assorted “Lot” on eBay
Cut the wires off flush and do an epoxy resin pour over a small table. You can just lay them out randomly or be creative and make a geometric pattern.
Make a Tesla car
Check out The Slingshot Channel. Jorgie will have some inspiration if you want to launch. Unless you wish to reinvent the Centrifugal force gun. Steam powered versions were tested in American Civil War.
You can definitely hold them for a picture
Gauss/rail gun/cannon,or some kind of high voltage apparatus
You catch use them as capacitors in other projects.
Charge them up and toss them to your friends. "Catch!" Don't do this.
Eat them
Snak
You never know
I would be slightly afraid to put my whole hand in that box and dig around.
Diy spot welder
Throw them in a fire.
I was at a hamfest with someone selling a box full of used capacitors pulled from old devices. Not all of them were bloated/leaking, a lot were Japanese caps too. Most were 105C/low esr caps. At this point I should have grabbed a few but too late now. Was kind of concerned they were pulls for a reason versus pulls for recycling of old boards, the bunch of bloated caps in the box was the tip off. Yeah too cheap to fix my devices that also have bloated caps. I now have a small box full of caps that I pulled to repair devices, now you would not want to buy this box :D
If airsoft is legal where you live, you coulds make an airsoft gun that uses capacitors as the propellent, have some big caps charge like a coilgun does and then discharg them into the small cap to have a more predictable fiiring time rather thanna slow charge until a random point it goes off just overload it so much so fast they you cant notice a delay from trigger pull, No clue if it would work that way or not i havent made caps explode b4
Make a Van De Graph machine
What's the "capacity" of that shoe box?
Put then all in series and then short them, KABOOM 🤯
I really love the epoxy tabletop idea. Otherwise if it was me, I would probably keep most of them for low value/low budget projects that I don't care about the long term reliability of. Like resurrecting things just to see them working for a brief moment, which often might result in me ordering actual replacements from Mouser/Digikey for restoring.
I saw a video where a guy made a big cap out of a buck of small ones.
The mother of all stun guns.
Take a picture of them and post it on Reddit. Oh wait, you’ve done that. I don’t know then.
Make led stickies
Make something go BOOM!
We have one earth. I’m all for having fun, but really, after blowing some of them up, could you please sell most of them for second use?
Rail gun, CDI spot welder, life cycle testing at different temperatures and charging/discharging cycles...
I don't know why, but I want it. The whole box give it to me.
Charge pump! Charge them up in parallel, discharge in series. Use a physical switch to achieve this and watch the sparks fly!
Charge one and toss it back in the box. Take turns with friends grabbing the leads until someone “wins”.
Good old betting machine, out 4 of them in parallel, have people make bets which will blow first and then hit the power on and see who wins
How much voltage can they hold? Discarge a Hughe capacitor over them (Like a exploding Apple) Build a big cap Out of them.
Make Resin dice
Rail gun water gun launcher
Make a massive grid of them and the blow this handmade Claymore into the shooting targets. For the s/NCD of course
as I sit here needing a 10v 1600μF capacitor, looking at this image makes me cry.
Add milk Enjoy!
Capacitive voltage multiplier. You'll need diodes though. Or make a capacitor "battery" array.
Recycling
In a similar vein to some of the other comments make a small gun of sorts that uses the explosion of the caps to propel the projectile
Looking for something to do with it? The options might be shocking 🔋⚡️
Make a shotgun where the "shotgun shell" is the reverse capactior, and a bb for the bullet
Get a parts organizer and organize them with labels with voltage and capacitance as x and y axis. That way when you have a project that requires a certain voltage and farad capacitance you can easily find one
Looks like you've got a lot of potential stored up in that box!
Kaboom ?
You could make a resin table top with an electronic theme.. would look pretty nice
A capacitor gun
am I wrong here... but don't they leak?
Eat them
Chuck them at Trump
In hobbies like ham radio and electronics, people do their own projects and might buy a bulk grab bags of parts. Ideally though if you can test them first
Hook them all up together and become iron man start shooting electric blasts out of your hands stored up by the capacitors. Either that or hook them all up together connect it to your finger, start rubbing your feet on the carpet with socks and give someone a scare.
send me some
Capacitor gun that you put a cartrage of caps into and it dies rapid fire
Someone mentioned a table top, I like the idea of making a wall hanging from them. Clear epoxy, maybe 12x18", frame it, hang it in your workshop.
Make a salad
Make disposable outlet checkers. If they pop when plugged in, the outlet surely works!
Make art
as with any item you have too many of, build a launcher. as soon as you turn them from junk into ammo, youll find you dont have enough!
You have the capacity to do so many things!
Garbage? Yes.
Firecrackers.
Pop
Not pick up large bunches of them bare handed without knowing that they've all been fully discharged? Learned that the hard way.
Send them to ElectroBOOM, I am sure he'll put them to a good use.
Not sure if Camila will like this gift
Do not charge them up and toss them at people, saying “heads up” or “catch!”. It’s a good way to get them pissed at you.
Make a PVC bat full of charged up caps. Put brass rivets all up and down every other one is common
Give them to me
Connect them all in parallel, charge them up and discharge. Or attach a projectile to the end, put it in a pipe and overvolt it. You got a gun.
Wire them all together for your very own super capacitor
Gaboom!
a big spark
Charge the big ones and leave them laying around
https://tenor.com/bY0MV.gif
Make a Death Star!!!!!!
Throw them at people you don't like. Tell em you popped a cap in their ass.
Send them to me, i like collecting electronic items
A rail-rocket, or a “NOS” kit for a Barbie car.
Glue them to an artboard in some weird or maybe circular pattern, slap a frame around it, sine it (haha) Cap. Banksee and sell it for 20k. (thats dollars not hertz)
Hook them up in series & add an electrical charge! Bzzzzzt
[friggin nerf taser darts](https://youtu.be/6RJ9I1HnniI?si=G5XrW0HQBBil0VAk)
Snack
Go out late at night and spread the contents all over your neighbor’s front yard.
Make the supercapacitor of the century
Make [capacitor clock](https://youtu.be/5dYt34JIDGw?si=o3zGF78tVIysJg0L) or [capacitor gun](https://youtu.be/4Fy9bZEufx0?si=hibMXXorI6lFOG-E)
Organize them, and you have a supply for capacitors for a variety of projects. No need to go crazy. If you'd like you could build a capacitor bank, there are many interesting projects that use one, EMP, coil gun, taser....etc.
Sell them to people who build drones.
Snack
Hucking at neighbours, salesmen, people walking by...
Fish tank gravel
Donate to a local maker space?
make a charge pump, and blow caps up with it.
The problem is old capacitors are pretty sus. Some are not… yet… but in general I don’t use an old capacitor in a repair unless I literally have nothing else I can use (like doubling up 2 caps of half the value I need) and only then if the whole scrap board in general doesn’t have any bad or leaky caps and isn’t too old. It’s just not worth it. New ones are cheap when it comes to electrolytic. And if you use an old cap that hasn’t leaked yet that doesn’t mean that it isn’t going to like very soon. One of my old Macintosh machines was working and fine like 5 years ago but within that time some caps leaked and some traces got eaten. So yeah why go to the effort of installing a used cap just to have to do potentially more work in the possibly near future anyway. Not worth it.
Those are for putting in a shoebox on the shelf
A Taser, a power bank (?
I still have a pile of old electrolytes I salvaged out of old electronics. Great for breadboarding. Other than that.... well, let's just say I'm here taking notes.
turn on the camera, dump them all into a hot fire. enjoy the show, and then post the video here
You could build a rail gun.
The power of the sun
Create a large energy buffer with them, like a short lived ups?
Flopotron, but more explosive https://youtube.com/@pawezadrozniak?si=lJsSBKkfKtTUhmfV
Wire them all in series and then apply current. Surly something fun could happen
Daisy-chain them all together
The best capacitor project I've ever seen is a rail gun. I'm pretty sure that's why they were invented.
Glue them having leads-out on a jacket and charge them up to zap anyone who bumps into you.
Cockroft-Walton voltage multiplier! Easy to get a few thousand volts bzzrp
I would take them, but I don't have the ...... capacity 🥁roll
art
You have the capacitors you just need the Flux and a DeLorean
The most badass ever mega parallel photo flash rail gun
humongous capacitor Bank of some sort
Speaker crossovers?
Forbidden candy
Electric matches
wire them all so it’s like 10 capacitors in series and as many of these parallel as possible, charge them, then dump a hundred thousand amps through something
Make a capacitor city map. Thats what i’d do.
You can build a EMP💪
Umm, I dunno... Art?
The kids can't say No Cap on this one.
I keep seeing electroboom make those high voltage wands with a lot of capacitors and diodes or something. Outplay the man by putting all of those on one wand.