In high school electronics we also used a tesla coil (that can kill you if you touch the wrong place) so they disconnected the mains cord so it had to be rewired prior to use to keep us safer.
They taught us how to wire plugs the following week…
Middle school for me. Was about a month of machine shop. We built a breadboard, demonstrated the difference between series and parallel using light bulbs, that kind of thing.
Nah, purely resistive loads in that class. Was pretty basic since it was a required course. Electronics in high school, an elective… yeah there were some dipshits that earned the Sparky nickname.
Now tech school, where we were left unsupervised for lunch… yeah there were a lot of blown out voltage regulators from using our hand-built power supplies to pop capacitors in various ways and degrees of safety. What can I say, some guys just love the smell of burnt peanut butter.
Did you also have the group that had competition to see who could hold hot glue the longest, wacked eachother with metal rulers held over bunsen burners, and snorted citric acid when you made sherbert?
If those kinds of things happened I wasn’t around to see it.
Did have a guy do some embroidery on his palm during sewing class though (we got the kitchen sink thrown at us in middle school, was actually kind of neat). Same guy intentionally turned the oven up to max while making pretzels in home ec. Not the brightest bulb.
I find it interesting more than anything else.
In high school electronics we also used a tesla coil (that can kill you if you touch the wrong place) so they disconnected the mains cord so it had to be rewired prior to use to keep us safer.
They taught us how to wire plugs the following week…
You got taught how to rewire a plug in high school?
Middle school for me. Was about a month of machine shop. We built a breadboard, demonstrated the difference between series and parallel using light bulbs, that kind of thing.
Did half the class also make tazers after learning what a capacitor does, which wasn’t three best thing to know with wooden desks…
Nah, purely resistive loads in that class. Was pretty basic since it was a required course. Electronics in high school, an elective… yeah there were some dipshits that earned the Sparky nickname.
Now tech school, where we were left unsupervised for lunch… yeah there were a lot of blown out voltage regulators from using our hand-built power supplies to pop capacitors in various ways and degrees of safety. What can I say, some guys just love the smell of burnt peanut butter.
Did you also have the group that had competition to see who could hold hot glue the longest, wacked eachother with metal rulers held over bunsen burners, and snorted citric acid when you made sherbert?
I had some of those in my school too…
If those kinds of things happened I wasn’t around to see it.
Did have a guy do some embroidery on his palm during sewing class though (we got the kitchen sink thrown at us in middle school, was actually kind of neat). Same guy intentionally turned the oven up to max while making pretzels in home ec. Not the brightest bulb.
Yup. Was told clearly at the start to not plug it in to the wall sockets located just underneath us.