Inside a Zoll defibrillator
🕑 Added 2024-02-14 02:56:54 +0000 UTCThis is one of the scariest capacitors I've ever removed from a circuit. Even though the unit had not been used for a long time, I still treated it as potentially holding a charge and applied suitable handling precautions, including applying a 1M resistor across it one lead at a time.
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Gordo
Btw, the Google translate app on my phone can successfully translate the spoken prompts into English..
Gordo
Years ago a friend gave me a big box of defibrillator parts when his work (a defibrillator factory in Bangor, NI) were taken over by an American corporation and everything went into a skip. Among the parts were some large vacuum relays - I can imagine what those were used for..
Ymir the Frost Giant
Oh a patient stimulator - can't wait!
Mike Page
To get it to "bang" you need a thing called a "patient simulator" set to VT or VF. And a 25-125R load to soak up the electrons!