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====== Coin Shrinker Machine ====== | ====== Coin Shrinker Machine ====== | ||
+ | ===== Description ===== | ||
+ | The coin shrinker uses a flyback transformer and a full wave rectifier to store energy in high voltage capacitors, then discharge it suddenly into a coil of wire that is contained within a chamber. | ||
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+ | ===== Photos of the results ===== | ||
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+ | Various US coins with their before/ | ||
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+ | ===== Photos of the machine ===== | ||
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+ | Cart with four large, high voltage capacitors | ||
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+ | Cart with power supply, full wave rectifier, and volt meter | ||
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+ | Secondary/ | ||
+ | Once the primary switch is shorted, the shim is knocked out the ring drips to short the bus bars | ||
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+ | Left: door hinge for primary switch | ||
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+ | One of four HV capacitors | ||
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+ | Remains of a coil of wire after discharge and safing\\ | ||
+ | Blue painter' | ||
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+ | Scrap copper bits from the shrapnel in the chamber | ||
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+ | ===== 2017 Video Demo ===== | ||
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+ | ===== References ===== | ||
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