What is a surefire way to destroy a 240 - 6v transformer safely without leaving any external marks?
How can I destroy a transformer?
Mar 02, 2004
29 Replies
Depending on the size of the transformer, you could probably rupture the
240V primary by sticking a 12V battery across it. The primary will overheat internally and go open circuit. (if its over 50VA the primary dc resistance is probably less than 10R)If its a really small (ie less than 10VA) the primary resistance will be higher, in which case stick it across the secondary as the wire guage will be quite small and should rupture easily.
Dave
Let me guess, some attempt to claim something under warranty or something similar.
I've heard similar requests before on how to knacker a PC without any obvious signs.
If you can give a justifiable and clearly legal reason, I'm sure you'll get a better response from people.
David
without
Mike, are you also "Richard" who posted this on uk.telecom.mobile ?
Focussed neutrino beams.
Nonsense, they'd pass through it without even interacting with it!
Not if you use enough.
"Enough" being about as much as the entire solar output...
On usenet, nobody can tell if you'r an omnipotent being.
Bung it in the microwave
Or, if you have several to do at once, a high altitude nuclear burst should do the trick.
Fair point well made.
c.f. arxiv.org/hep-ph/030506 :-)
Ben.
Do you mean /0305006 or /0305060 ?
Duh! arxiv.org/hep-ph/0305062 is what I meant -- 'Destruction of nuclear bombs using high-energy neutrino beam', or something similar... slightly impractical from a technical point of view, unforunately...
Ben.
Yeah, but if he *were* an omnipotent being, he'd not have made the obvious grammatical mistake :-)
Hwyl!
M.
Are you the guy who wanted to know how to destroy a mobile sim card ?
Dave
On a more practical aspect, you can boil a kettle by emptying it and putting on the stove on full and forgetting all about it like I just did. Not quite untraceable though as the smoke alarm woke me up for a start.
Surely omnipotent beings can make grammatical mistakes. They wouldn't be omnipotent otherwise.
Martin Angove wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@tridwr.demon.co.uk:
Looks more like a spelun mistake to me
mike r
Traceroute to both ends up at Corus Group at Swindon. Posting IP's of 145.8.169.151 and 145.8.171.10.
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