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by therobot24 4585 days ago
what happens when you put too much current through? Does the notebook go up in flames? Having seen many fellow classmates flip polarities to watch caps explode, i can see them lighting up their notebooks with this..
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Hooking up 230 V to a 2 cm @ 100ohm/cm resistance trace would generate about 250W of heat (unless I'm miscalculating something), which is about the power rating of a beefy soldering iron, or an amnemic hair drier, and at that lenght, it should be enough to ignite the paper. However you have to consider that