How do I create and electric shock with a battery?

Question

How do I create and electric shock with a battery, I saw it before where i think a 8v batter had 2 wires connected to it and there was metal clamps on the end snd a remote thingy that controlled how much shock was created ans how many watts were used. Where can i learn to make that for my science fair?

Answer 1

To create a noticeable electric shock from a battery like a common house hold battery you would need to run a couple of them in a series but the easiest way to create a visible spark or a noticeable shock would be to disassemble a disposable camera. I will have to warn that most of the disposable camera flashes do produce and store up to 500Volts.

The capacitor and a transformer is what is used to store the energy taken from a common AA battery. I have used multiple capacitors to create electrical discharges of up to 8 inches between to electrodes.

If you want to experiment with electricity you can look up Spark Gap Generators, Tesla Coils, Wimshurst Generators, or VandeGraffe Generators. You can find many of these at some common scholastic stores such as: http://scientificsonline.com/Default.asp?

Answer 2

use a transformer, through making a connection on and stale on a step up transformer will create a extreme voltage, of spike party get an audio transformer 8 ohms to 1000 ohms, ( speaker transformer, attempt radio shack or the source) the 8 ohms side has 2 wires, connect one to the "+" side of a 9v battery and the different leave loose, and intermittently contact the "-" side of the battery. The 1000 ohm, side will produce a extreme voltage, yet very low cutting-edge, it is going to fairly damage you yet grant you with a sturdy wonder. carry both wires between your finger and thumb of an same hand. yet make positive they do no longer short, then with the different hand contact and launch the cord on the battery. have exciting yet be careful, also in case you leave the battery on the coil too lengthy you'll burn out the coil, basically a speedy contact is all it quite is needed.

Answer 3

There are quite some options if you want to create shocks using a battery (unlike someone said before, it IS possible to generate high voltages with a small 9v battery, up to 50000volts without problems), all you need is at least a bit of electronic basic electronic skills (circuit reading, component knowledge and soldering). If you're okay with that, here are the circuits you need:

-Replica of a commercial stun gun circuit:
http://www.uoguelph.ca/~antoon/circ/hv/stungun/stungun.html

-This one is easier because it uses just a standard transfo and a voltage multiplier (all standard components, and simpeler design), the voltage is lower but it'll do fine.
http://www.uoguelph.ca/~antoon/circ/hv/dazer/dazer.htm

-If you don't need it to be portable, you can just drive a car ignition coil, its the easy way of producing big sparks. You need to build a driver circuit (this converts DC to pulsed DC which drives the coil).
here's a driver circuit + some info:
http://www.geocities.com/capecanaveral/lab/5322/coildrv.htm

-And finally, as people mentionned above, you can do it the easy way and modify a camera flash unit or electronic bug zapper.

However, be very carefull with camera flash units, those capacitors are in fact more dangerous than lets say an induction coil or a stun gun. The caps can store around 16 Joules, while 10 Joules can be lethal to humans, so you don't want to go zapping people with that. No big sparks involved here anyway (just a loud bang). 8 inch sparks using only caps in series like someone said before is crap, since those caps are just charged to around 400V and you'd need 200KiloVolts for 8 inchers.
Anyway bottom line is; if you want to use the camera flash unit, use it without the big cap or change it by a smaller value one (below 100uF).

Answer 4

shock requires more voltage than that on body skin. If you licked a 9volt battery you will see your tongue is much more sensitive than your fingers.
If only one battery is involved then current through an inductor would get interrupted and the spike generated by the collapsing magnetic field could be used. Similar to a buzzer.

Answer 5

http://electronics.howstuffworks.com/stun-gun.htm
Cattle prod uses D size batteries and boosts the volts with very little amps. It hurts ! There are hand held fly zappers available at Harbor Freight., they look like tennis rackets.
http://da.harborfreight.com/cpisearch/web/search.do?keyword=fly&Submit=Go

Answer 6

u cant create electric shock outof a battery cuz the flow of eletrons is tooooo weak.and the energy is very lees
u might try it with car battery!