Tuesday, February 10, 2009 2:41:04 PM
No no no.. this will not do. even if it was a hella powerfull battery, the dc from it will stop at the transformer in the power supply, get hot and possibly catch fire. So put your car batteries back where they belong people.
Tuesday, February 10, 2009 6:06:03 AM
To everyone who thinks you can make a taser from a battery:
Yes, this is technically true, but you can't just strap some electrodes to the ends of a AA and think you can shock some people. Actual tazers have one or more types of voltage boosting circuit in them to step up the voltage to a typical of 50kV (that`s 50,000V to those of you who think this vid is legit), and I`ve seen them up to 1MV (1,000,000V; which won`t kill you under a few mA [milliamps], but I`d imagine to be VERY painful).
Excuse my nerdraging. It`s 6AM and I`d normally be going to bed around this hour, not waking up.
The number of people who seem to think this will work is...just...:|.
(1) The battery is the wrong kind of voltage source. TVs run off AC, a battery produces DC. While some TVs with relatively low power consumption (if LCD/plasma; all CRTs need the AC to power their flyback transformers) use a switching power supply that can be run off a DC source, (2) the battery is a nominal 1.5V (if alkaline) and probably is around 1.7V fresh. The average TV is rated to run off of 120V, and 240V if you live in Europe or something. (3) Even if the battery WAS of the proper voltage and current type, I only know of ONE of that would be capable of providing enough raw power to the TV, and it's a lithium battery made by Saft for NASA (which could only power the TV for a few seconds before it starts to overheat).
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