Re: [OT] Battleship game with a twist

Tantalums as ordnance, sort of.
My stack exchange Q&A on tantalum caps.

           https://electronics.stackexchange.com/q/99320/3288

Includes:

"Where the circuit providing energy to the cap is able to provide
substantial energy the cap is able to offer a correspondingly low
resistance short and a battle begins. This can lead to smell, smoke, flame,
noise and explosion. I've seen all these happen sequentially in a single
failure. First there was a puzzling bad smell for perhaps 30 seconds. Then
a loud shrieking noise, then a jet of flame for perhaps 5 seconds with
gratifying wooshing sound and then an impressive explosion. Not all
failures are so sensorily satisfying."

This was 40+ years ago.

Battleships that smelled, smoked, shrieked, wooshed, flamed and exploded
would be great


         Russell


On Fri, 21 Aug 2026 at 23:43, Clint Jay <[email protected]> wrote:

> Finally, a good use case for Tantalums
>
> Clint. M0UAW IO83
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> On Fri, 21 Aug 2026, 12:27 Chuck Olson, <[email protected]> wrote:
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> > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_bdp9nk0NZk
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> > Why is destruction for no reason so much fun ?  :)
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> > Best Regards,
> > Chuck, WB9KZY
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