Posted by Wayne Parham [ 64.216.179.54 ] on December 04, 2004 at 01:16:06:
In Reply to: Did someone say lava lamp? posted by colinhester on December 03, 2004 at 16:55:40:
Oh my God, I can't laugh at that. It would be funny, in a Darwin Awards kind of way, if it weren't so tragic. I can see how it could happen. Lots of hobbyists here would be (or have been) unlucky in a similar fashion when pushing an electrolytic capacitor too far, either by over-voltage or reverse polarity. The wrong little piece of shrapnel in the wrong direction can do some damage. I guess that's kind of what happened to that poor guy with the lava lamp.