The really most dangerous thing (probably not planned in the script) is when the GFCI falls into the bathtub. This time I was really scared! (Usually I'm familiar with short circuits and component explosions when watching these videos).
@torugita johnson Woah, I've been electrocuted but never unable to release. I wonder like, during that moment are you able to still think clearly and see but unable to move? One guy told me he only saw red.
It only happened once, (we have no protection but meltable fuses for overcurrent), an i remember i had time to think "shit, i cant let it go i have to throw myself back or something similar" and the device (amplifier that i forgot to unplug during repair) stayed on the table, while i fell back landing on my butt;-)In any case, it would almost certainly break the contact when hitting the floor.
He calculates the shock he's going to get and makes sure it doesn't cross lethal values. EDIT 2 years later: Okay I know sometimes he does genuinely mess up. You don't have to tell me. The Jacob's ladder is a particularly famous example.
In our class of electronic engineers (aprientenceship) There was this big discussion if Mehdi is a retard or a profesional. We concluded: He Posted so many videos, which means if he was stupid, he would have already died. So every stun he makes, is on purpose (or most). So he he is actually a very profesional, because he hasnt died yet.
Electric showers and even faucets are widely used in Brazil and they rarely are reported to be lethal, BUT you don't want to touch their plastic shielding when your hands are wet (100% guaranteed in the case of faucets). Edit: it tends to be more unpleasant in showers if you raise your hands and touch them than it is when you operate the faucet. Furthermore, grounding is not something people tend to do, except connecting ground wires to neutral.
I wish I had a teacher like you in my engineering days. But no worries as i keep on learning and sharing your knowledge to others. Thanks a lot Sir. Love and Respect from India.
It's funny because the "Suicide Shower Head" is very common in Mexico, there's some states where is not that common to use warm water from a heater because the high temperatures, it's even wierd not have one on certains cities.
Stages of watching Mehdi's videos after finding him for the first time: 1) lol what an idiot 2) Oh he actually knows his stuff. Still funny when he gets hurt lol 3) *Doesn't even notice he got zapped because that's just normal part of the videos and the content is too interesting*
They have an "automatic" system that gets dusty and it gets stuck, then when you close the water the shower keeps heating the water, the water becomes steam, spits very hot water and steam, then the plastic melts and it finally catches fire. Have a nice bath :)
Electric shower heaters are very different from that monstrosity Medhi showed. The electricity and water are usually very well insulated from one another. I belive bigclive had a teardown of one on his channel.
John M. I never heard of anyone dying because of electric shower, but I've heard one case about gas heated shower. He died asphyxiated because of a gas leak.
When I was a kid, I've experienced a few poorly installed ones that did provide a little bit of a buzz; but all the ones that have been properly installed and from respected brands never gave me any issues.
PuffyGamerVids Yes I know, the US uses GFCIs in just their bathrooms, almost the rest of the entire world uses RCDs for all their circuits with all sockets (and often also lamps etc.)
@@untodesu The RCD doesn't need an earth wire to function, and it costs virtually no time and less than 30€ to install one. Here in Italy they've been around since the '60s and I'm honestly astounded that there are so many countries which don't mandate protecting the whole house with one.
The insulation is flimsy and the air gaps are too small inside the ChinaExport chargers. They should be able to withstand 3000 V AC for a minute when properly made! Combine that with a bathtub, a USB cord to the socket and that European service panel RCD's trigger at 30mA instead of 6mA ... Tragic! What is amazing is that even international supermarket chains sell them. Nobody has been fined or jailed despite plenty of callbacks! Also: I don't believe the girl dropped the phone into the water, she just held it in her hands. Major parts of an iPhone could become live like this depending on the model.
Or something with very cheap class Y capacitors connecting the ground planes of the primaries and secondaries. I have seen cheap PSUs using standard disc capacitors for this. Naughty.
@@gertvanpeet3120 no, your socket is not grounded and the capacitive coupling brings voltage to the output but very low current. Known brand chargers are safe.
some not so cheap chargers made in safer countries have 120/240v on the output, my samsung branded south korean charger that came with a $500-1000 phone has current flow from the tip ground via my foot on the ground or just via capacitive coupling of my body, i've been "burned" by it enough times to know the feeling
As far as I know there are supposedly some remote places in the world which only get their electricity from a single wire (which of course is the live wire). So the circuit is actually closed through ground ... like actually through the Earth and its lovely dirt. And no, I have no idea how that would work with the massive resistance of the ground.
Thanks again for introducing me to Kreosan, they are amazing although in recent years they've strayed a little from their original electrical content and more into urban exploration and metal detecting instead. And also thank you for bringing up the electric shower heads, just recently on Instagram I saw a shower head in Brazil shooting out flames and I was wondering how that was possible.
true but for some reason this time i was afraid from @1:10 i was thinking "FUCK FUCK FUCK...................... dont drop the GFCI in the water boom , then it will be really BOOM"
Even though he might overlook something in a circuit he made, it’s really impressive how much he can tell you; and also learning from his overlooks/mistakes
The video was uploaded so i guess he survived, the gsci breaker already cut the electricity so there was elecrricity only in the wire to the gfci outlet i think
Same! Looking through comments to see if anyone else was "shocked" by that. The wires inside that box are still live, the box is"weather resistant" not "weather proof". I think he's doing this without live wires and adding sound of gfci later or someone tripping another gfci off camera for the sound.
@@shawnniedetzki7548 he is doing with live wires but both electric terminals are in the water so even with the gfci closed nothing would happen since he is not in series with the live an earth
I'm pretty sure all his setups are wired with an extra layer of protection off camera. for this one the wire to the bxo was probably behind another breaker. pretty sure he's too aware of the danger to have the box with live wires on the bathtub without protection
@@Zearion the breaker will not open. The current flow does not meet the magnetic or thermal limits. I think he was just lucky that the water did not get in yet and also that the current would have gone between the live and neutral / ground at the outlet instead of looping outside through him to the ground in the tub.
This guy really does know his stuff, super entertaining almost educating if you listen to how he speaks in his videos. Super funny and I could watch these videos all day, what a guy an absolute legend.
The "Suicide Shower Head" is very common in Brazil. In fact that's what we had at my parent's house for maybe 25 years, until eventually the gas network arrived at their street. In addition, the house does not have any grounding to this day. Old houses and apartments just don't have ground. The sockets have only live and neutral. When I was a kid I came to the "brilliant" conclusion that a light bulb was just electricity going through a springy wire. So I connected two wires to a spring and plugged it in to the power socket. The spring exploded and the circuit breaker in the corridor turned the power off. That was my Mehdi Moment. Newer houses and buildings have ground. And some have ground fault circuit protection, but to my knowledge not at the sockets, but at the main circuit breaker board. Usually not for the whole house, but only for the "wet circuits", that is, power sockets at lower levels and/or in areas where they might be close to water (bathrooms, etc). A couple of weeks ago I was installing a luminary when I got confused with the wires (it shared the same live/ground with another set of lights - or something like that). I think I connected the luminary to live and ground (instead of neutral). I think. When I turned it on, the circuit breaker shut down all of the lights of that floor. Not sure if that was a ground fault protection.
Tá, mas se o que ele diz é verdade. Deveria ter gente morrendo aos milhares no Brasil. Eu acredito que a corrente elétrica não frita nosso cérebro por que a diferença de potencial entre os fios é muito maior que o chuveiro e nossos pés, dessa forma a corrente tá condenada cruzar a resistência.
Muriel Henrique Schonardie Faz sentido. Outra coisa é que o que sai do chuveiro são gotas, com alguma separação entre elas, e não um jato contínuo (ou não tão contínuo....). Sei-lá, algo a pensar. Ou a perguntar a ele.
@@saurabhsalunkhe2417 electronics are part of electricals only they are digital and low voltage (not always) that's why they are called as electronics and electricals IEEE also means electronics and electricals.
i was actually thinking about that magnet fan thingy he showed in those videos and wondered if you turned the magnets so the magnet you were holding and the magnet on the fan blade were the same pole so they repel one another. then what if there was a way to block the magnetic field (like a material) so that as the fan turned once it passed the material it would hit the full force of the repelling field and be flung away, same with the next blade and next blade.
Man, you dropped the GFCI outlet into the tub. The mains upstream GFCI could've electrocuted you. But I think you've taken precautions. Thank God, you're safe.
In Germany, GFCI is absolutely standard at all newer houses and mostly before the fuses to the separate rooms, so you are protected in every room. Which is great. So I'm totaly with you, regulation is the most important thing.
@@leonpano Maybe it's like the netherlands in bathrooms the protection is hidden. Every item in the bathroom needs to be grounded even the floor so it will all trip the protection.
While I trust you know what you're doing, being an Skilled Electrical Engineer and all. I still feel the need to change my shorts after watching you play with live AC like this :D
Russian here. Yup, most apartment buildings here (that weren't build like in the last 10 years or so, I'm not sure) don't even have grounding pins in the outlets, let alone any protection on bathroom outlets. Our flat actually didn't have a bathroom outlet before and previous owners installed it in parallel with the light switch.
Yeah, same. My washing machine just f*cking electrocutes me when I forget to unplug it. For example, as I touch the side of washing machine and the bathtub in the same time.
It's common all over eastern Europe. My parents home still doesn't have a ground wire in the power outlets. And its not even an old house but like most of the houses around here was built by non professionals with limited knowledge on electricity.
My apt building is like 10 years old. Not a fancy one at all, but it came with properly grounded outlets, and the one in the bathroom has a GFCI in the apartment's electrical cabinet. It even works, I tested it. Not in Moscow, BTW.
Kreosan lives in an old house. In the area that is pretty much in a sate of war. So not everyone lives like that in the former SU, not even most people. But you have to consider the fact, that the standard of living dropped considerably since the end of SU. So there are not that many people who managed to update their home's power lines for 25-30 years. It's a minor miracle that those lines, that were built to a 220V 5A standard still manage to somewhat function with the modern appliances. I mean, a 2000 Watt heater was unthinkable for home use back when the SU electrical grid was built, but it's almost a standard now. You'd be hard pressed to find a less than 700 W kettle. When the old SU clothes iron (about the most powerful home appliance apart from electric oven, which needed a special power line to work) was only 400 W. I think the only thing that allows that grid to function is the falling use of incandescent lamps, which lowered the load on lighting. The ground was not in the standard as well. So most people don't have a ground wire anywhere in their home. Most bathrooms didn't have an electrical socket at all, only the lighting. People should just get the idea that if you don't know exactly what you are doing, you shouldn't break the rules. If there is a rule to not bring electricity into the bathroom, don't do it. The other way would be to find out if your device has the needed protection, if you socket has the needed protection, if your bath is grounded, and so on. But until people will just break the rules without thinking it through first, they will continue to die now and then doing it...
I have a feeling thats what got him popular in the first place. All i saw before would be a highlights of him electrocuting himself LOL Now this man has 2.3mil views LOL
Those electrocution from chargers are often caused by poor insulation. Some dodgy charger have only 1mm insulation distance between primary and secondary or their transformer lacks capton tape between windings. So if you use charger in humid environment and bathroom tend to be warm and humid, it can result into condensing humidity between tracks and bringing live to secondary
@@jeffkardosjr.3825 However tingling is caused by deliberate looks on Y1 capacitor between primary and secondary to cancel HF noise and interference emission from secondary side. This is by design on almost all two prong power supplies
Like I showed before it, live wire directly in water is much less painful and sometimes not noticeable depending on the body of water and where your body is located. I didn't feel anything. There was a bit of water inside the box, but also maybe the wires didn't make a good contact with the water outside the box
He mentioned the deterioration of a gov/country not the ppl of Ukraine Russia, he mentioned his country Iran have a similar crappy outlet like Ukraine, didn't pretend his country was better
The water !!!! That's literally putting yourself in danger (I know I know...) For a TH-cam video, well to educate others... Other videos can be fun and all, but this , WAAAW, respect Mehdi ! Greetings from Morocco 🙏
@@danillobsc Pouca casa tem DR, a maioria tem só disjuntor mesmo. Chuveiro desses Lorenzetti comuns nem funcionam com DR, já que costuma ter um pouco de corrente pelo terra, e desarma o DR toda hora. Pra ter DR em casa com chuveiro elétrico, só se for instalado chuveiro blindado, apropriado pra uso em casas com DR. (Eu nem sabia disso, fui aprender hj)
_Famous last words:_
*"Let's try it"*
"awww"
Those words are why men have a higher mortality rate than women.
@@smartass199614But at the same time you gotta consider that men also invented more things. I'd say that science is a high-risk high-reward situation.
9 months later, a baby was born
At least he didn't have to say "Hold my beer" Or "Hey y'all, watch this!!" :P
I see those both too often here in Arkansas......
“It’s much more dangerous if the current runs through your body first, then into the water”
*lets try it*
The really most dangerous thing (probably not planned in the script) is when the GFCI falls into the bathtub. This time I was really scared! (Usually I'm familiar with short circuits and component explosions when watching these videos).
Ben drowned
@@NotNiekie I thought Ben fell in a lake or something and not in a bathtub with electrical current
@@flying_Night_slasher Look at the profile picture of dfgr643
@@NotNiekie I just realized yesterday but because this video has water I'm now basically building up lore
Before knowing about this wise man I was scared of getting electrocuted, now I'm completely terrified.
how can Jesus be scared?
@torugita johnson Woah, I've been electrocuted but never unable to release. I wonder like, during that moment are you able to still think clearly and see but unable to move? One guy told me he only saw red.
Then he did his job properly by saving you
THATS THE SPIRIT!
It only happened once, (we have no protection but meltable fuses for overcurrent), an i remember i had time to think "shit, i cant let it go i have to throw myself back or something similar" and the device (amplifier that i forgot to unplug during repair) stayed on the table, while i fell back landing on my butt;-)In any case, it would almost certainly break the contact when hitting the floor.
Assuming Mehdi’s videos aren’t acted and he really is shocking himself, he is risking his life for our education. Thank you, Mehdi!
He really is a legend.
He calculates the shock he's going to get and makes sure it doesn't cross lethal values.
EDIT 2 years later: Okay I know sometimes he does genuinely mess up. You don't have to tell me. The Jacob's ladder is a particularly famous example.
In our class of electronic engineers (aprientenceship) There was this big discussion if Mehdi is a retard or a profesional. We concluded: He Posted so many videos, which means if he was stupid, he would have already died. So every stun he makes, is on purpose (or most). So he he is actually a very profesional, because he hasnt died yet.
Fghsgh except that one with with the Jacobs ladder. He 3D printed a special stand. And it still fell over. He almost died on that one.
@@jeffborders5526 Yeah, even Professionals make Human error.
NEWS: Man dies after kissing his GFCI.
Bug In A Rug lol
Ik
🤣🤣😂😂😂😂🤣
GF(CI)
XD
I love the "clumsy engineer" angle. You keep it comedic but still get the information across. Keep it up, sir.
'Demonstrates how safe a gfci is by shocking himself through one'
'drops the gfci in the bath'
BruceNJeffAreMyFlies lmao
@Liam Same
I have to hope he fakes the electric shocks.
honestly that scared the shit out of me lol, I swear he will die from making a youtube video at some point.
@@BrainScramblies Same here lol
Imagine hearing your Husband or Dad in the bathroom recording a video.. 'now I connect live cable to my big spoon and put big spoon the de water'
1:57
Soapy water: *fails to shock Medhi*
Medhi: fine i'll do it myself
Its Mehdi not Medhi😆
I read that in his voice, lol.
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
@@horridshade same
And then the box almost drops into the water.
"Let me demonstrate"
-i ready myself for Mehdi to be grounded
You want to chill frost him like you?
Mmmmm ya
“It’s a lot more dangerous if the current goes from your body to the water, LeTS tRy iT!
Werewolfzero WHY HAHAHAHA
Its just a Demonstration himself. But don't do it yourself obviously...
YeOWW
Don't worry, the GFCI will protect you....Oh, wait...the whole outlet, precariously placed on the tub's rim, slips into the water....ZAAAAP!!!
@Rye Bread I guess he didn't listen
Electric showers and even faucets are widely used in Brazil and they rarely are reported to be lethal, BUT you don't want to touch their plastic shielding when your hands are wet (100% guaranteed in the case of faucets).
Edit: it tends to be more unpleasant in showers if you raise your hands and touch them than it is when you operate the faucet.
Furthermore, grounding is not something people tend to do, except connecting ground wires to neutral.
2:03
Man dies after dropping *_🅱️ I G S P O O N_* in his leg
Not yet he suviva
😂😂
Hitmonbug how do drop a spoon in your leg? He didn't have a spoon sized hole on his leg, just a lot of hair
This made me laugh so hard
I mean he is crazzyyy
I wish I had a teacher like you in my engineering days. But no worries as i keep on learning and sharing your knowledge to others. Thanks a lot Sir. Love and Respect from India.
It's funny because the "Suicide Shower Head" is very common in Mexico, there's some states where is not that common to use warm water from a heater because the high temperatures, it's even wierd not have one on certains cities.
Alv talk about fancy coincidences. Hello, Mr. viral king 😎
¿Tienen gfci en méxico?
weird* well, i had to correct you, love your videos btw :)
Pero bueno missa que haces aquí
@@Tio_HatSí
He's my favourite type of science teacher, funny yet informative
5:04 is that the Spider Sound from minecraft?
Yes
LMAO😂
Oof 🤣
Hahahaha🤣🤣🤣
Mine cRaCk 😂😂😂😂😂
2:03 Man dies after dropping GFCI into bath tub.
This comment is underrated 😅😂
😂😂 I didn't noticed that lol thank you
Wait... Thats illigal
You stole this
Chipmunk this dude stole it
Probably the first time i’ve heard someone say “i’m not racist but...” and say something that isn’t racist at all
Zog I of Albania “I’m not racist but” this is really hard cause everything I wanted to say was extremely racist.
I'm not racist but is ok to be white
I'm not gay but I'm attracted to male anatomy, sexually speaking.
@@mrkiky
Good example too. XD
"I'm not racist but blacks and Mexicans arent good"
5:54 make sure your wife never watch this part! XD
what does the manual says about dropping the whole GFCI unit in your bath? I hope it was plugged in another GFCI 🤣
It was
@David M It should be. One of them will open, whether it be the last one, the first one or any one in between.
spooked my out of my chair
he plugged it in outside the bathroom
this is the only time i was scared in this video
3:17 activate the Enghlish Subtitle
"facepalm x6 lol"
Bruh
Bruh moment...
Spark
Hahahhah
Stages of watching Mehdi's videos after finding him for the first time:
1) lol what an idiot
2) Oh he actually knows his stuff. Still funny when he gets hurt lol
3) *Doesn't even notice he got zapped because that's just normal part of the videos and the content is too interesting*
Kolvarg 4) subscribe
@@joshuadivall-andrews8831 i subscribed at stage 2 tbh
Yea on stage 3 n I barely found him yesterday
Stage 2 nearly to 3
I never reached stage 1
4:09 I loved Mehdi's reaction.....quite hilarious
4:11
4:06 "Your brilliant idea may change the world "
Fuckkkkkkkkkkkk......$hitttttt
*God listen*
Instructions unclear
*F*cked $hit*
Probably is not a good idea talking about bright things with things can bright electrically. DX
In Brazil, the electric shower is very common.
Never Heard about any accident except once it took fire in itself, IDK why
They have an "automatic" system that gets dusty and it gets stuck, then when you close the water the shower keeps heating the water, the water becomes steam, spits very hot water and steam, then the plastic melts and it finally catches fire. Have a nice bath :)
And all them are GFCI compatible.
Electric shower heaters are very different from that monstrosity Medhi showed. The electricity and water are usually very well insulated from one another. I belive bigclive had a teardown of one on his channel.
John M. I never heard of anyone dying because of electric shower, but I've heard one case about gas heated shower.
He died asphyxiated because of a gas leak.
When I was a kid, I've experienced a few poorly installed ones that did provide a little bit of a buzz; but all the ones that have been properly installed and from respected brands never gave me any issues.
As he drops the GFI outlet and live box in the tub with him.
Let's hope the GFCI outlet was plugged into a GFCI outlet^^
@@Steamrick or waterproof :D
Doesnt matter cause it already tripped
@@aFriendlyPest yeah and Im quite sure it was. He would never place the socket in that position if he wasnt sure it being safe.
@@aFriendlyPest doesn't the whole circuit breaker trip when that happens?
3:16 He hit his forehead so hard I could feel the pain on my side.
I know you are right since you clearly survived long enough to upload this but my heart still raced.
That's me on every single one of his videos
ElectroBoom: talking about GFCI in bathrooms.
Me, living in a Russia: "GFCI? Never seen one of those"
Outside the US RCDs are much more common, which are basically the same.
PuffyGamerVids Yes I know, the US uses GFCIs in just their bathrooms, almost the rest of the entire world uses RCDs for all their circuits with all sockets (and often also lamps etc.)
Well, we have RCD but older buildings simply dont have it. Three wire virgin vs two wire chad
@@untodesu The RCD doesn't need an earth wire to function, and it costs virtually no time and less than 30€ to install one. Here in Italy they've been around since the '60s and I'm honestly astounded that there are so many countries which don't mandate protecting the whole house with one.
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1900s: dies from tuberculosis
2019: dies from charging phone in bath
1900: dies of Smallpox
2010: Dies from charging phone in bath
2030: dies of Smallpox
@João M. it's like they say "survival of the fittest" 👌
natural selection gotta work atleast to 1% of its duty
@@Mr.Leeroy not with pornhub.
Arthur has tuberculoces
4:29 *Mehdi realizes he's touching the grounded scope with his other arm*
*sees girls with tight leggings*
*”Leggings for 24 dollars..”*
Hahaha I died with the milkman ad
2 for 24
I only looked in the comments section to see if anyone mentioned the picture ad😆
@@theobserver887 Of course ElectroBoom mentions it first.
5:00 I'm confused, why is his body shorting the two outputs?
Darwin's theory and natural selection :
"Wtf is this guy"
He is proof that the theories aren't accurate 😂
In Mother Russia, phone charges you!
Omg no lol
@@AboveEmAllProduction 😂
In modern Russia fhone kills you
In soviet Russia phone kills you.
In soviet Russia it's not IPhone, it's WePhone
0:03 preparing mega laughter moment for Neckless Steve
Looks like we have some really high resolution minecraft shaders here... Hmmmmm....
@@danek_hren good one 😂😂
She probably used a Chinese knockoff charger that uses a capacitive dropper
Girls should use BFCI instead of "GF" version :D
XD
Exactly! I just watched bigclivedotcom take apart fish killing aquarium led-pump-thingy yesterday, although it's older video.
The insulation is flimsy and the air gaps are too small inside the ChinaExport chargers. They should be able to withstand 3000 V AC for a minute when properly made!
Combine that with a bathtub, a USB cord to the socket and that European service panel RCD's trigger at 30mA instead of 6mA ... Tragic!
What is amazing is that even international supermarket chains sell them. Nobody has been fined or jailed despite plenty of callbacks!
Also: I don't believe the girl dropped the phone into the water, she just held it in her hands. Major parts of an iPhone could become live like this depending on the model.
Or something with very cheap class Y capacitors connecting the ground planes of the primaries and secondaries. I have seen cheap PSUs using standard disc capacitors for this. Naughty.
Some cheap Chinese usb chargers have mains voltage on the usb plug!
Even my Motorola has IT, and my Acer laptop, Just because they are not really Transformers!
@@gertvanpeet3120 no, your socket is not grounded and the capacitive coupling brings voltage to the output but very low current. Known brand chargers are safe.
There are USB chargers out there wich consist of a mains plug, a USB socket and a capacitive dropper inbetween.
Wouldn't that fuck up your phone
some not so cheap chargers made in safer countries have 120/240v on the output, my samsung branded south korean charger that came with a $500-1000 phone has current flow from the tip ground via my foot on the ground or just via capacitive coupling of my body, i've been "burned" by it enough times to know the feeling
"Ugh, i melted my probe, i need more of these, i guess it's one of the reasons this video is sponsored by keysight"
I almost died from laughter
Right as he blew it up I thought "well good thing he's got a "sponsorship with Keysight" Annnndd then he said it. haha
this is the only time this segway is smoother than linus tech tips'
@@Ahmadsyar True 😂. Also it's spelled segue, hope this helped.
"leggings for 24$" 😂🔥🔥really got me there😂😂😂awesome video you are so brilliant
Isn't it amazing to live in a house with no earth connection whatsoever. Makes life full of surprises.
Almost entire Russia lives like this. I mean, there are sockets with ground contacts but they are often not connected
I live in such house. There are only two grounded sockets and they are occupied by water pump, water heater and refrigirator.
As far as I know there are supposedly some remote places in the world which only get their electricity from a single wire (which of course is the live wire). So the circuit is actually closed through ground ... like actually through the Earth and its lovely dirt.
And no, I have no idea how that would work with the massive resistance of the ground.
Cake7273 and why would you make such nonsense claims?
@@Karim-oh5jt That is probably the stupidest claim I have yet to read on TH-cam
"It's much more dangerous if the current runs through your body first then into the water. Let's try it."
Best channel
I can't believe he just kissed his gf on camera
LMFAO
@@technocxt when?
Ayush Banik Ult 2:25
@@ayushbanikult8451 whoooooooooooooooosh
@@ayushbanikult8451 whoooooooooooooooosh
Thanks again for introducing me to Kreosan, they are amazing although in recent years they've strayed a little from their original electrical content and more into urban exploration and metal detecting instead. And also thank you for bringing up the electric shower heads, just recently on Instagram I saw a shower head in Brazil shooting out flames and I was wondering how that was possible.
Also, they used to cheat a lot in their videos. For example, in their EMP cannon video they rigged their target with explosives to make a show.
someone: I can't live without a phone!
**later**
someone: dead
phone: lives
It isn't a ElectroBOOM video if he doesn't shock himself... HAHAHA
true but for some reason this time i was afraid from @1:10 i was thinking "FUCK FUCK FUCK...................... dont drop the GFCI in the water boom , then it will be really BOOM"
yes that's why people watch the videos
It isn't an ElectroBOOM video without the BOOM
@@SailaSobriquet prob he got another one outside view
"I connected my big spoon"
Ayo💀
Mehdi you're amazing at making electricity and technology videos, you go the extra mile and actually risk with demonstrations.
1:16
*B I E G S P O O N*
*B Î Ę G Š P Ë Ū Ñ*
Hahahh (Big Spoon)
@@TerribleTommyFAN r/whoosh
Nobody:
Him:*" It's more dangerous when it runs first through your body. LeT's tRy iT"*
YEAWEOOWW!
Being we share the same name I find this comment funny.
@7-Minute Crafts can we get 981 milisecond life hacks?
I remember when I started watching Mehdi I found it funny every time he got shook, now I feel bad because he's such a genuine guy.
Erik ITS NOT SHOOK ITS SHOCK OR SHOCKED
Roblox And more OneShot yes its called a typo. CALM DOWN GENIUS
John D dude it triggers me I saw 2 comments with the same mistake
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Mm mm oh, oh, yeah, yeah!
I'm all shook up.
@@Laith-rb1nj two people making the same mistake? WOW! I'm shook!
2:36 shortest hairdryer cord ever
Even though he might overlook something in a circuit he made, it’s really impressive how much he can tell you; and also learning from his overlooks/mistakes
2:04 I thought that when outlet box fell in the tub, he was doomed.
The video was uploaded so i guess he survived, the gsci breaker already cut the electricity so there was elecrricity only in the wire to the gfci outlet i think
Same! Looking through comments to see if anyone else was "shocked" by that. The wires inside that box are still live, the box is"weather resistant" not "weather proof". I think he's doing this without live wires and adding sound of gfci later or someone tripping another gfci off camera for the sound.
@@shawnniedetzki7548 he is doing with live wires but both electric terminals are in the water so even with the gfci closed nothing would happen since he is not in series with the live an earth
@@felixbeutin9530 you never know which wire hits the water first, inside the outlet box. If it is live wire, you're f*cked
I'm pretty sure all his setups are wired with an extra layer of protection off camera. for this one the wire to the bxo was probably behind another breaker. pretty sure he's too aware of the danger to have the box with live wires on the bathtub without protection
2:03 - Okay, you actually scared me there when you knocked the GFCI box into the water. I hope you had another one upstream!
I was wondering if that had gotten water into it what would have happened.
Same here
@@Zearion but the live wires were still going into the gfci it just wasn't sending any power out the plug.
I'm guessing a staged setup, as unless he had an upstream GFCI, he would have been shocked pretty badly. Still, awesome videos.!
@@Zearion the breaker will not open. The current flow does not meet the magnetic or thermal limits.
I think he was just lucky that the water did not get in yet and also that the current would have gone between the live and neutral / ground at the outlet instead of looping outside through him to the ground in the tub.
This guy really does know his stuff, super entertaining almost educating if you listen to how he speaks in his videos. Super funny and I could watch these videos all day, what a guy an absolute legend.
The "Suicide Shower Head" is very common in Brazil. In fact that's what we had at my parent's house for maybe 25 years, until eventually the gas network arrived at their street.
In addition, the house does not have any grounding to this day. Old houses and apartments just don't have ground. The sockets have only live and neutral.
When I was a kid I came to the "brilliant" conclusion that a light bulb was just electricity going through a springy wire. So I connected two wires to a spring and plugged it in to the power socket. The spring exploded and the circuit breaker in the corridor turned the power off. That was my Mehdi Moment.
Newer houses and buildings have ground. And some have ground fault circuit protection, but to my knowledge not at the sockets, but at the main circuit breaker board. Usually not for the whole house, but only for the "wet circuits", that is, power sockets at lower levels and/or in areas where they might be close to water (bathrooms, etc).
A couple of weeks ago I was installing a luminary when I got confused with the wires (it shared the same live/ground with another set of lights - or something like that). I think I connected the luminary to live and ground (instead of neutral). I think. When I turned it on, the circuit breaker shut down all of the lights of that floor. Not sure if that was a ground fault protection.
Eai gay??! Tá em choque?? Chama o batman
Zaralho DZN será que ele vem de Mobilete?
Samsung Galaxy S7 edge
Yes, my "Mehdi" moment 😅
Tá, mas se o que ele diz é verdade. Deveria ter gente morrendo aos milhares no Brasil. Eu acredito que a corrente elétrica não frita nosso cérebro por que a diferença de potencial entre os fios é muito maior que o chuveiro e nossos pés, dessa forma a corrente tá condenada cruzar a resistência.
Muriel Henrique Schonardie
Faz sentido. Outra coisa é que o que sai do chuveiro são gotas, com alguma separação entre elas, e não um jato contínuo (ou não tão contínuo....). Sei-lá, algo a pensar. Ou a perguntar a ele.
rule #1 don't use electronics near the bathtub unless you are trying to win the Darwin Award.
What can l say besides l never lose
Don't use unnecessary things or else the lights and geysers in the bathroom are also part of electrical equipment.
More like loose it
@@ag135i I think there's difference between electronic and electrical equipment
@@saurabhsalunkhe2417 electronics are part of electricals only they are digital and low voltage (not always) that's why they are called as electronics and electricals IEEE also means electronics and electricals.
"Thank you, GF." *Kiss*
Apparently the GFCI device is now Mehdi's girlfriend. XD
What? He is just kissing his gf
HIs wife would be very angry if she find this out LOL
*mistress
Well, it did just save his life...
do your electric shit like hairdrying when you get out of the bath
In the UK we have RCD which is our version of GFCI and all of our plugs and circuits are covered by it
Browsing the internet without an adblocker or NoScript. That's the most dangerous behavior I noticed in the video.
Nah, those news sites just are like that. ^^
s/adblocker or NoScript/uBlock origin and uMatrix/
You're the most entertaining educator I have seen. Love your work.
Mehdi-Eyes don't look don't look........
Eyes-Leggings for 24$😆
More like for a 24 year old.
Mehdi-Eyes Blue Dragon
*Mehdi explaining stuff*
Me dieing of laughter bc a man who has basically no hair is holding a hair dryer XD
LOOK AT THE CABLE OF IT THO WHY IS IT SO SHORT?!
-And remember, no idea is stupid.
-I have this idea about a free energy device.
-Ok, almost no idea is stupid.
ludvercz what about the apple mouse
-no idea is stupid
-what if I make an electric guitar where the string are live wires
Sounds like tesla before he got wacked
i was actually thinking about that magnet fan thingy he showed in those videos and wondered if you turned the magnets so the magnet you were holding and the magnet on the fan blade were the same pole so they repel one another. then what if there was a way to block the magnetic field (like a material) so that as the fan turned once it passed the material it would hit the full force of the repelling field and be flung away, same with the next blade and next blade.
Man, you dropped the GFCI outlet into the tub. The mains upstream GFCI could've electrocuted you. But I think you've taken precautions. Thank God, you're safe.
Maybe it was all planned.. i rly dont know it if i watch his videos, it is pretty hard to decide if this is planned or not XD
In Germany we got the GFCI installed in the fuse box, couldn't happen here (: Also there's a contact for it in every outlet, not just in the bath.
:( yes. my heart also almost stopped when i saw that. :D but i guess when he would have gotten seriously injured he won't be able to upload
@@Xenoray1 it's all planned, if you watch his Jacob's ladder video you'll see what he looks like when something actually does happen.
He probably plugged the external GFCI outlet into the installed GFCI outlet in his bathroom.
"Why is it all girls?"
*demonetized*
(with the "giveaway time" jingle)
De-mine-tized!
I don't get it.
@@CoryMck girls dum lol
@@hoticeparty no, that still makes no sense. Why would he get Demonitized for being sexist?
@@CoryMck i wasnt talking about that i was just calling girls dum to meme
In Germany, GFCI is absolutely standard at all newer houses and mostly before the fuses to the separate rooms, so you are protected in every room.
Which is great. So I'm totaly with you, regulation is the most important thing.
Why I didn’t see it
My hause is built in 2014 at aargau
@@leonpano Maybe it's like the netherlands in bathrooms the protection is hidden. Every item in the bathroom needs to be grounded even the floor so it will all trip the protection.
I went to the bathroom today without my phone
There are 145 tiles in there
EDIT:- OMG thank you all sooo much for all the likes
I take a shower... nothing else
I too went to the bathroom without my phone. I know all the ingredients in all our hygiene products.
@@mohyim0280
That is actually why I need a waterproof tablet.
For watching vids and reading
@Edward James Kenway im puerto rican so
....
NIGGA
the way to win the IOT INNOVATION CHALLENGE is make a free energy device
Just plug an extension cord into itself and boom you won
Remember… that Mehdi is also a judge
Then include a fuuuulllll bridge rectifaiyaah
Quoting Mehdi "no idea is too simple or stupid"
@@vanerek b-but-
In Russia, you don't charge your phone. Your phone charges you.
Illumnati confirmed...
After seeing this video it's actually right
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LMAO!
You just did a In Soviet Russia joke w/Crazy Russian Hacker by Yo Mama SNAUGHFLATULING ROFLMAO
I love how long the cord is on the hairdryer makes it very practical
Thats normal, the cord extends if you pull it.
While I trust you know what you're doing, being an Skilled Electrical Engineer and all. I still feel the need to change my shorts after watching you play with live AC like this :D
Dude try a GFCI functionality with himself. Instant sub.
risking his life was worth it
Black Shibe good profile picture
Russian here.
Yup, most apartment buildings here (that weren't build like in the last 10 years or so, I'm not sure) don't even have grounding pins in the outlets, let alone any protection on bathroom outlets. Our flat actually didn't have a bathroom outlet before and previous owners installed it in parallel with the light switch.
Yeah, same. My washing machine just f*cking electrocutes me when I forget to unplug it.
For example, as I touch the side of washing machine and the bathtub in the same time.
It's common all over eastern Europe. My parents home still doesn't have a ground wire in the power outlets. And its not even an old house but like most of the houses around here was built by non professionals with limited knowledge on electricity.
My apt building is like 10 years old. Not a fancy one at all, but it came with properly grounded outlets, and the one in the bathroom has a GFCI in the apartment's electrical cabinet. It even works, I tested it. Not in Moscow, BTW.
@@callmerive Mine's like, 25+.
3:00 "output of the charger is isolated from the live wires"
or at least it should be.
In mother Russia, phone drains *your* life
u the real shocker...lol.
@@Protocol15 you don't get it?? And a charger is more counterintuitive then saying a phone because it charges. It doesn't drain!
In mother Russia, Earth revolve around Moon.
@@GameAce6 не понял?
best one 😁😁😁😂
2:03 had me laughing so hard for literally no joke 20 minutes🤣
That proves to me you haven’t seen his channel before
NDL
Your sense of humour is excellent! Learn and laugh! 🍺😎👍
The ads were very good in the website you visited
1:35 _"You never try this at home"_
Me, snuggled up in my blanket on the couch, eating chips: "ok".
Kreosan lives in an old house. In the area that is pretty much in a sate of war. So not everyone lives like that in the former SU, not even most people. But you have to consider the fact, that the standard of living dropped considerably since the end of SU. So there are not that many people who managed to update their home's power lines for 25-30 years. It's a minor miracle that those lines, that were built to a 220V 5A standard still manage to somewhat function with the modern appliances. I mean, a 2000 Watt heater was unthinkable for home use back when the SU electrical grid was built, but it's almost a standard now. You'd be hard pressed to find a less than 700 W kettle. When the old SU clothes iron (about the most powerful home appliance apart from electric oven, which needed a special power line to work) was only 400 W. I think the only thing that allows that grid to function is the falling use of incandescent lamps, which lowered the load on lighting.
The ground was not in the standard as well. So most people don't have a ground wire anywhere in their home. Most bathrooms didn't have an electrical socket at all, only the lighting.
People should just get the idea that if you don't know exactly what you are doing, you shouldn't break the rules. If there is a rule to not bring electricity into the bathroom, don't do it. The other way would be to find out if your device has the needed protection, if you socket has the needed protection, if your bath is grounded, and so on. But until people will just break the rules without thinking it through first, they will continue to die now and then doing it...
Who else started cracking up when he touched himself with the spoon? 😂
me
Me
Me! He and I both got equally startled.
I have a feeling thats what got him popular in the first place. All i saw before would be a highlights of him electrocuting himself LOL Now this man has 2.3mil views LOL
Those electrocution from chargers are often caused by poor insulation. Some dodgy charger have only 1mm insulation distance between primary and secondary or their transformer lacks capton tape between windings. So if you use charger in humid environment and bathroom tend to be warm and humid, it can result into condensing humidity between tracks and bringing live to secondary
Yeah. It's common to feel something on a barrel connector.
@@jeffkardosjr.3825 However tingling is caused by deliberate looks on Y1 capacitor between primary and secondary to cancel HF noise and interference emission from secondary side. This is by design on almost all two prong power supplies
4:07 I'm not sure if y'all noticed, but that's edited
Not its cut abit that's why it looked edited
The explosion was real, and there is a cut because he exploded a capacitor
2:05 when the inline GFCI recepticle nearly fell in the tub. I owe you a beating for that. Remind me.
watching educated indian man nearly kill himself 101
@@Krunkks Iranian
2:05 OMG that was scary . the GFCI outlet dropped to water
N҉O҉T҉I҉S҉ L I cringed. Hopefully he had that GFCI plugged into another GFCI in the room.
The GFCI didn't blow up, so he probably connected it to another GFCI to save his life 😃
U can expect a jumpscare anytime from his videos 😂😂
2:05 GFCI in the water why not shock you ?
Like I showed before it, live wire directly in water is much less painful and sometimes not noticeable depending on the body of water and where your body is located. I didn't feel anything. There was a bit of water inside the box, but also maybe the wires didn't make a good contact with the water outside the box
cause medhi is immortal to death by electric shock
@@mohithraju2629 :O you mean he is a superhero called ElectroBrowMan ?
@@ElectroBOOM If electric shock doesn't work you can also use crocodiles in the bathtub. If you have no crocodile at hand use hungry tigers.
@prabhat kumar and what about the other side of the breaker... You know, the thing that takes power to the breaker in the first place?
'I'm not racist... BUT!'
-Mehdi
One of the very few cases when the following phrase actually isn't racist
He mentioned the deterioration of a gov/country not the ppl of Ukraine Russia, he mentioned his country Iran have a similar crappy outlet like Ukraine, didn't pretend his country was better
@@davidescicolone8069 I'm not racist, but women are bad drivers.
@@fedos lol that is a fact
@ElectroBOOM Thank you for consistently rectifying this issue.
The water !!!! That's literally putting yourself in danger (I know I know...) For a TH-cam video, well to educate others... Other videos can be fun and all, but this , WAAAW, respect Mehdi !
Greetings from Morocco 🙏
I live in Brazil and I've never seen a GFCI. I also grew up bathing in electric showers.
Basicamente um DR local no circuito. Nada misterioso. O ódio pelo nosso chuveiro elétrico, no entanto, é impressionante.
É inveja... Eles só sabem o que é viver perigosamente vendo filmes de Hollywood. hahaha
Maybe in Brazil it's like in germany. We have ALL circuits saved (not only in bath)
@@danillobsc Pouca casa tem DR, a maioria tem só disjuntor mesmo. Chuveiro desses Lorenzetti comuns nem funcionam com DR, já que costuma ter um pouco de corrente pelo terra, e desarma o DR toda hora.
Pra ter DR em casa com chuveiro elétrico, só se for instalado chuveiro blindado, apropriado pra uso em casas com DR. (Eu nem sabia disso, fui aprender hj)
@@danillobsc mas infelizmente a maioria das casas não possui dr a minha mesmo só tem um fio terra muito duvidoso no chuveiro
This guy taught me more things than my science teacher did
3:16 my guy risked his life to promote his sponsor
and that was smooooooth
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Nice
@@DOOMBLADE1494 less gooooo
My kitten loved watching you swing a ladle around in the bathrub and tried catching the ladle 😂
2:03 😂🤣. Respect for using your own body as test subject
"Never take live wires with you in the bathtub"-Mehdi 2019.
EDIT: Thanks for the likes.
EDIT-2: Where is my heart from electroboom.
Just saved my life, I was about to go play with some live wires in the bathtub. Bless Mehdi
Apparently that's not obvious to some people
Make sure they are dead before you do
The 2019 version of never stick a knife in a toaster.
@Michael Murphy Yeah I know. Though I actually don't own a toaster and almost never toast things when I did own one so I think I will be alright.
This man is crazy as hell and that is why I love him.