@@WELLINGTON20 that thing also has thousands of volts going through it. Your skin, even a bone dry scab, isn't gonna do jack-off to stop that. Combined with all those amps, pffff. Gonna at minimum cook you into a well-made steak. At maximum, as PI said, blow you apart. Keep in mind that thing is not shooting precisely 1ka and 1kv. PI did another video with that monstrosity of a capacitor wherein the numbers for amps were around 4000 and volts were near 13kv. You do the math. That thing is shooting a truely *Colossal* amount of power near-instantaneously. UPDATE: it was 5,000 volts at *over 80,000 amps.* Holy shit...
What are you studying? I really hope your doing an apprenticeship which includes commercial and industrial because that's the only way to learn a trade. Doing domestic you don't really learn anything and it's a lot of bodget and scarper.
@@TheManLab7 Got my associates degree in electrical/utility technology. I'm planning on getting in as a substation apprentice, right now I do electrical work on cell towers. I can agr with you there. The commercial & industrial side of electrical is far better than domestic/residential. I've done some residential, & it sucks. Lame as fuck.
@@TheManLab7 Sounds like what I'd do. Plus here in the US, we got residential grade outlets and wire which is cheap rubbish. For personal installs, I try to stick with the good commercial grade stuff, which ironically is easier to work with.
I like that your videos are entertaining but also you take a moment to explain the lethal dangers of such a thing as a trash can sized capacitor. Thanks for showing.
For those thinking of purchasing a large capacitor: they are dangerous devices. Unlike batteries, capacitors can release all its charge at once, which means high current that can be very destructive and lethal, even for a brief time. If batteries deliver energy like gas tanks, capacitors are like explosives.
Very true, best to leave it to those who know what they are doing. I remember that Nikola Tesla said capacitors were the electrical equivalent of dynamite after a very large one blew up in his lab.
I should hope someone who purchases a large cap has qualifications in *at least* level 2 electrical installations or equivalent, which would give necessary practical and theoretical skills and knowledge to know about and calculate capacitances, and also safely work with electrical systems in general
That would be extreamly dangerous. I know the leader of the high voltage lab in my city and he told me, that they did that in an other high voltage lab and they made a short circuit. The explosion whas so insane that it blew out the wall of the room. Luckely nobody got hurt...
Actually, capacitors do have a behavior called "dielectric absorption" where the voltage will begin to rise again on its own after the cap is fully discharged. This is because some of the energy which you put in the cap when you charge it remains in the dielectric material in the cap. It doesn't come out in the first discharge but can be discharged-out later. How much this happens depends on the materials that the cap is made from.
2:13 "Oh dear, I've copped all of that over me! I'm covered in BANARNER" Best bit! By the way, you should go to work on that big floor fan on the floor, see how fast you can get it to go before it pops!
Try it with a large-ish electrolytic. They usually show this effect pretty well. I just tried it with a 680uF, 25V Panasonic electrolytic cap charged to 24V. After quickly shorting it with a screwdriver, it rose back up to about 1V or so over the course of 30 seconds. In this case it's not dangerous, but if you have a cap which is charged to 5kV and it regains 1/25th of its original voltage, that would be 200V and still be enough to kill you.
I had an experience with capacitor accumulation. Though it was mere 400V 22uF that was constantly energized to wall plug over a year, it had a LED with 100k resistor as a load, i shorted it out 20 times and still it recovered the charge out of thin air. I ended up shoveling it into salt water for a day.
@@DjResR Must be the fastest responds to an 8 year old comment. Interesting with the salty water. have heard it was more conductive, but a very smart way to use it. Still playing around with these things? Not really a person that understands all these different technical words, mostly here for the overload videos :)
@@kaspervestergaard2383 Same old same old, although nowadays have done more experiments with low voltage stuff, just recently managed to get 4000 chips to do stuff. Still getting zapped too from time to time and it still hurts._
This is one of my favorite videos of all time. thank you for all your amazing work! please re-upload your India vlog, that was probably my favorite one!
Man, shorting out capacitors is loud! Even with a small MOT cap at 600 volts my ears still hurt. Oh, and there's aluminum foil shards everywhere because I wondered how big the damage on a CD would be.
Better to change "not likely" to "should not be made this easy"... Assumptions about something this dangerous, not worth it. They could be obtained second hand, and you know how second hand things are often devoid of user manuals or proper labels 😜 Also, there is no certification required to option one, as they are not dangerous in the state they are sold in.
Charging them isn't hard. For those who don't know how, just run a simple google search. The fact is, large capacitors are dangerous and everyone does have access to them. They're in TVs, microwave ovens, computer power supplies etc etc etc. They may not be as big as the one in the video, but they're just as dangerous. Death is still death, even with a smaller shock.
I seriously love your videos, they are always awesome. This is the kind of stuff I wish I could do, but for safety reasons I probably shouldn't (a surgeon I ain't).
Im a BIG FAN of you photon! was quite happy when i seen your video's back up! Iv been trying to source some parts to make a Induction heater. Hopfully will start getting some stuff sorted!- Great Video's Keep it up!
Way back when I had a 2.2 uFd, 2300 volt DC capacitor, energy storage type. That and a 1800 VDC power supply for charging. I had fun, never got gotten. Try discharging through a 2cm piece of the finest magnet wire you can find! Very loud!
For some reason I felt like I had to try that a few days ago, before even reading your comment. But I used 0.2mm (~32 AWG) magnet wire, and a 22uF/400V capacitor charged from 220V mains through a bridge rectifier (310V peaks) and it was indeed very loud. Doing it again but with a 2300V cap would just be looking for trouble.
This must be some of the best content on entire youtube ^^ You have such a subtle guy who is ultra professional in the field of electronics and electricity messing around with extremely dangerous stuff ^^ 4:47 Beautiful explosion there ^^
Mate! Where are you? How are you? We miss you! Your vids have 81,000,000 views total! Are you retired yet??? Such great stuff on your channel man.... wish you the best. Post a quicky of yourself so we know you're alive!!
I was never much for blowing things up with capacitors I always enjoyed sticking inductors on them to see what kind of arcs I can draw- when I went to school my favorite part was Capacitive Inductive Networks and Power Factor.
when photonic induction tells you not to do something because its too dangerous, you absolutely 100% know that you should never ever do it, cos Andy doesn't do danger, so when he does, you know its serious..
The air-wick air freshener had me worried a little bit,reason being,is because of the IOSBUTANE thats EXTREMELY EXPLOSIVE!!.If that can would have exploded,it would have been like a shrapnel grenade going off in the room with shards of steel can going everywhere!!.Great video!!!.Now how about blowing up some 5 gallin bucket sized capacitors for science??.This would be great for the Fourth-of-July!!.HAHA!!.
Nice to see this one re-uploaded Photon. Probably would have made sense to upload the capacitor safety video before the other capacitor video you recently re-uploaded though. LOL
Apparently, large brief surges may knock a person out cold, but may not kill immediately like was once thought, often its a slow horrible death, that's why the electric chair was dumped. Just because one stops breathing and falls unconscious does not make them dead.
I was showing off a can-crusher rig (weird ultra-low-inductance pulse caps, 40kV, i think about 20kJ in the four caps, I can't remember exactly) I had done this several times. As I finished one demo and was prepping the next, a friend who had been watching, and who knew a thing or two about high voltage, shouted "stop!", I froze, and he pointed out I was reaching for the exposed conductors and caps but I hadn't shorted it out this time. Even the residual charge would have killed me dead. He said i turned white as a sheet. And I never did it again. Distractions and talking do not go well with HV safety. Pretty sure I only have three or four of my nine lives left. ;)
um yes i do. it would be used in a standard "H"power supply to filter out and ripple. What I do not know is if it would be before or after the inductor choke. Probably after & before the load. Id like to know how many farads it is.
With this pricipule you can ,with an radio-transmitter pulse strong radio-waves . Placed on satelites they can transmit from 100 million Km,from for example, the mars.
Make sure you short out your discharged capacitors because they can continue building up a charge through dielectric absorption even without a power source.
hahaha "Proper Capacitor", hahaha, damn I love when You say "I popped It" or "I want flames", thanks for all those cool vids Photon, You are my personal hero :)
lazerus, I was just going to post the same request. A "meat demo" on that cap would be a violent demonstration of fleshy destruction... a most-worthy photon vid.
"You will probably just explode" Proper word of advice lad..
Ikr
Daniel Timberwolf your weakest point in your hand will explode like a fuse. You won’t die
Plus you have a lot of hand resistance and resistance from ground
@@WELLINGTON20 that thing also has thousands of volts going through it. Your skin, even a bone dry scab, isn't gonna do jack-off to stop that. Combined with all those amps, pffff. Gonna at minimum cook you into a well-made steak. At maximum, as PI said, blow you apart.
Keep in mind that thing is not shooting precisely 1ka and 1kv.
PI did another video with that monstrosity of a capacitor wherein the numbers for amps were around 4000 and volts were near 13kv.
You do the math.
That thing is shooting a truely *Colossal* amount of power near-instantaneously.
UPDATE: it was 5,000 volts at *over 80,000 amps.* Holy shit...
Dave Crupel yes however there’s not a lot of time to do damage.
I can only imagine the smell that must be lingering in that room. So much has happened in there, so so many unspeakable things. :)
My favorite Photonicinduction EVER ! Loads of destcruction and a heavy dose of reality/safety.
Well done.
These were the days I got my electrical inspiration. Now I'm on my way to a good career because of it. Thank you so much for the vids!!
What are you studying? I really hope your doing an apprenticeship which includes commercial and industrial because that's the only way to learn a trade. Doing domestic you don't really learn anything and it's a lot of bodget and scarper.
@@TheManLab7 Got my associates degree in electrical/utility technology. I'm planning on getting in as a substation apprentice, right now I do electrical work on cell towers. I can agr with you there. The commercial & industrial side of electrical is far better than domestic/residential. I've done some residential, & it sucks. Lame as fuck.
@@VariacManiac I hardly EVER do it and it's only for my family and 2 of my mate's.
@@TheManLab7 Sounds like what I'd do. Plus here in the US, we got residential grade outlets and wire which is cheap rubbish. For personal installs, I try to stick with the good commercial grade stuff, which ironically is easier to work with.
I like that your videos are entertaining but also you take a moment to explain the lethal dangers of such a thing as a trash can sized capacitor.
Thanks for showing.
I liked the part with the explosion.
Hi how are you doing today
When you came through on that ball "in the name of scienceee!" I almost choked laughing on my drink haha
Hands down the best capacitor safety video I've seen on YT (and I've seen a lot).
SOMEBODY GET THIS CHAP A HIGH SPEED CAMERA!
Christmas gift. Lol
lol I love the fact that his camera has burned out pixels
I think that was from the laser experiment..
Yeah, when I first saw it, I was like "You lasered your camera, didn't you Photon?"
you really REALLY need to have a word with the Slo-mo guys
+smeghead666 YES THIS NEEDS TO HAPPEN
+smeghead666 YESS!!
+smeghead666 AW YISSSSS
+smeghead666 чашку золото и чемпион????????
Yeah maybe he can touch them with this capacitor, whilst we watch their faces explode in slow motion.
For those thinking of purchasing a large capacitor: they are dangerous devices. Unlike batteries, capacitors can release all its charge at once, which means high current that can be very destructive and lethal, even for a brief time. If batteries deliver energy like gas tanks, capacitors are like explosives.
Very true, best to leave it to those who know what they are doing.
I remember that Nikola Tesla said capacitors were the electrical equivalent of dynamite after a very large one blew up in his lab.
didnt he basically say this? twice?
I should hope someone who purchases a large cap has qualifications in *at least* level 2 electrical installations or equivalent, which would give necessary practical and theoretical skills and knowledge to know about and calculate capacitances, and also safely work with electrical systems in general
ok now go get about forty more of those and connect them together, IN THE NAME OF SCIENCE!
I'm sure he would. if you supply them lol
That would be extreamly dangerous. I know the leader of the high voltage lab in my city and he told me, that they did that in an other high voltage lab and they made a short circuit. The explosion whas so insane that it blew out the wall of the room. Luckely nobody got hurt...
Please do more of this Enormous capacitor explosive videos, I can't explain how fun these are.
I like the NED (noise emitting diode) he had. One time use though.
Actually, capacitors do have a behavior called "dielectric absorption" where the voltage will begin to rise again on its own after the cap is fully discharged. This is because some of the energy which you put in the cap when you charge it remains in the dielectric material in the cap. It doesn't come out in the first discharge but can be discharged-out later. How much this happens depends on the materials that the cap is made from.
_"It's still steaming on the floor, look."_ I was expecting something else.
2:13 "Oh dear, I've copped all of that over me! I'm covered in BANARNER"
Best bit!
By the way, you should go to work on that big floor fan on the floor, see how fast you can get it to go before it pops!
I know you're a professional with these things; but I really do wince when I see people play with big caps!
Oooh purple dots! The sign of a fine classic video :)
in the name of science .. boing boing boing
Try it with a large-ish electrolytic. They usually show this effect pretty well. I just tried it with a 680uF, 25V Panasonic electrolytic cap charged to 24V. After quickly shorting it with a screwdriver, it rose back up to about 1V or so over the course of 30 seconds. In this case it's not dangerous, but if you have a cap which is charged to 5kV and it regains 1/25th of its original voltage, that would be 200V and still be enough to kill you.
Lol. Never thought Photonicinduction would warn about safety.
Haha, the moonhopper pop at the end was awesome. Everyone had one when I was a kid
Thoroughly enjoy all of your videos, I have been watching and laughing for year's.
I had an experience with capacitor accumulation. Though it was mere 400V 22uF that was constantly energized to wall plug over a year, it had a LED with 100k resistor as a load, i shorted it out 20 times and still it recovered the charge out of thin air. I ended up shoveling it into salt water for a day.
@DjResR Salt water?
@@kaspervestergaard2383 Yup. Salty water is conductive. It was first thing I got in hand after getting zapped 5 times in a 10 minute span._
@@DjResR Must be the fastest responds to an 8 year old comment. Interesting with the salty water. have heard it was more conductive, but a very smart way to use it. Still playing around with these things? Not really a person that understands all these different technical words, mostly here for the overload videos :)
@@kaspervestergaard2383 Same old same old, although nowadays have done more experiments with low voltage stuff, just recently managed to get 4000 chips to do stuff. Still getting zapped too from time to time and it still hurts._
This is one of my favorite videos of all time. thank you for all your amazing work! please re-upload your India vlog, that was probably my favorite one!
Man, shorting out capacitors is loud! Even with a small MOT cap at 600 volts my ears still hurt. Oh, and there's aluminum foil shards everywhere because I wondered how big the damage on a CD would be.
that laugh at the end made my night 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Now I know how to open a coconut :D
I am so anxious to travel to England just to replace your floor carpet.
Why? He'll only burn another hole in it the day after you leave lol
He already has. Check the later videos
YES I checked! And its AWESOME :D
i wouldn't bother everyone in gravesend has carpet like this
3rdpartyU5er
You can borrow some of the carpet sitting in my addic. But if u wanted to do that you'll have to make another trip to ohio.
One of the best videos ever!
This video is the perfect visual to explain old TH-cam energy
Can`t thank you enough for these vidio clips.
PURE ENJOYMENT
HOW ARE THERE LESS THAN 600 COMMENTS?
This vid is such a masterpiece and a classic ❤ miss you Andy
Anyone else binge watching PI vids following his triumphant return ?
I've seen this video many times. This setup is brutal.
I love how blunt he is "you will probably just explode"
Steam explosions in tissue are a real thing. People have had fingers and feet blown right off their body.
So entertaining. Glad you do it so I don't have too but I would LOVE to see these experiments on filmed on high speed camera!!!
If you are able to get that capacitor, you probably don't need the warnings. Health and safety common sense.
+Julius Bernotas You'd be surprised what you can buy off ebay these days :-)
+vinny142 Kiddies buying that (and smart enough to charge it)? Unlikely.
Better to change "not likely" to "should not be made this easy"... Assumptions about something this dangerous, not worth it. They could be obtained second hand, and you know how second hand things are often devoid of user manuals or proper labels 😜 Also, there is no certification required to option one, as they are not dangerous in the state they are sold in.
Charging them isn't hard. For those who don't know how, just run a simple google search.
The fact is, large capacitors are dangerous and everyone does have access to them. They're in TVs, microwave ovens, computer power supplies etc etc etc. They may not be as big as the one in the video, but they're just as dangerous. Death is still death, even with a smaller shock.
and 150mA is more dangerous than 300mA
When this sort of channel stresses just how dangerous something is, it's probably a good idea to listen
I seriously love your videos, they are always awesome. This is the kind of stuff I wish I could do, but for safety reasons I probably shouldn't (a surgeon I ain't).
Im a BIG FAN of you photon! was quite happy when i seen your video's back up! Iv been trying to source some parts to make a Induction heater. Hopfully will start getting some stuff sorted!- Great Video's Keep it up!
Way back when I had a 2.2 uFd, 2300 volt DC capacitor, energy storage type.
That and a 1800 VDC power supply for charging. I had fun, never got gotten.
Try discharging through a 2cm piece of the finest magnet wire you can find!
Very loud!
For some reason I felt like I had to try that a few days ago, before even reading your comment. But I used 0.2mm (~32 AWG) magnet wire, and a 22uF/400V capacitor charged from 220V mains through a bridge rectifier (310V peaks) and it was indeed very loud. Doing it again but with a 2300V cap would just be looking for trouble.
This must be some of the best content on entire youtube ^^ You have such a subtle guy who is ultra professional in the field of electronics and electricity messing around with extremely dangerous stuff ^^ 4:47 Beautiful explosion there ^^
Mate! Where are you? How are you? We miss you! Your vids have 81,000,000 views total! Are you retired yet??? Such great stuff on your channel man.... wish you the best. Post a quicky of yourself so we know you're alive!!
Lovin the banana steaming on the floor! Great work photon.
This is the best video on the internet.
I was never much for blowing things up with capacitors I always enjoyed sticking inductors on them to see what kind of arcs I can draw- when I went to school my favorite part was Capacitive Inductive Networks and Power Factor.
Photon a Space Hopper is the very image of joy!❤😂
Possibly can be used to test devices for safety. Take multimeters as an example.
Lol at the smoke coming from the banana. That was instantly cooked.
when photonic induction tells you not to do something because its too dangerous, you absolutely 100% know that you should never ever do it, cos Andy doesn't do danger, so when he does, you know its serious..
Thanks for the advice i will think twice before playing with high voltage especially someone as careless as me.
Number one in Shiv technologies.
The air-wick air freshener had me worried a little bit,reason being,is because of the IOSBUTANE thats EXTREMELY EXPLOSIVE!!.If that can would have exploded,it would have been like a shrapnel grenade going off in the room with shards of steel can going everywhere!!.Great video!!!.Now how about blowing up some 5 gallin bucket sized capacitors for science??.This would be great for the Fourth-of-July!!.HAHA!!.
Not enough oxygen in the tank for it to explode
Nice to see this one re-uploaded Photon.
Probably would have made sense to upload the capacitor safety video before the other capacitor video you recently re-uploaded though. LOL
Another great vid! Love it. It's made me go off and learn the electrical equations for power, frequency, voltage and current.))
glad to see your back photon
Biggest cap I've ever seen. Much respect for big capacitors
He says as he cruises onto the room on his space hopper XD
"Aaaugh!"
"Yeah?"
"I'm covered in banana!"
Said in the most British way possible, I love it!
Apparently, large brief surges may knock a person out cold, but may not kill immediately like was once thought, often its a slow horrible death, that's why the electric chair was dumped. Just because one stops breathing and falls unconscious does not make them dead.
for me the best part is when he stabed the bouncing ball XD
"in the name of science" i just about lost it there xD
This may be my favorite episode
"THOUSANDS of amps, and THOUSANDS of volts"
I just like the warning notice, so vivid
Very dangerous experiment. One mistake and you're history.
Is that so? He really didn't nail that into my head in the video...
/s
Dead before hitting the floor? You mean painting the room Mr Bean style before noting you're you're dead or dieing the room you're in.
I was showing off a can-crusher rig (weird ultra-low-inductance pulse caps, 40kV, i think about 20kJ in the four caps, I can't remember exactly)
I had done this several times. As I finished one demo and was prepping the next, a friend who had been watching, and who knew a thing or two
about high voltage, shouted "stop!", I froze, and he pointed out I was reaching for the exposed conductors and caps but I hadn't shorted it out this time. Even the residual charge would have killed me dead. He said i turned white as a sheet. And I never did it again. Distractions and talking do not go well with HV safety. Pretty sure I only have three or four of my nine lives left. ;)
um yes i do. it would be used in a standard "H"power supply to filter out and ripple. What I do not know is if it would be before or after the inductor choke. Probably after & before the load. Id like to know how many farads it is.
With this pricipule you can ,with an radio-transmitter pulse strong radio-waves . Placed on satelites they can transmit from 100 million Km,from for example, the mars.
So does anyone know the specifications on that large capasitor? He says it's 5kV in another video, but how many Fd?
Very nice video, thanks much for posting. Continue to be safe!
PS: Poor little LEDs!
Probably so the rest of us can watch the videos instead of trying for ourselves plus it is so fun.
Make sure you short out your discharged capacitors because they can continue building up a charge through dielectric absorption even without a power source.
It would be splendid for everyone when you had a high speed camera...
Informative. Entertaining. Scary. Very good!
Love your vids still in 2020 any new content coming mr photon ?
Great video. Some good laughs, and a very serious message. Enjoyable!!
What specifications does that Cap have? (How much voltage and capacity?) Thank you.
some high-speed footage of this would be amazing
i love you man, keep being you
Well that answered my question.😱 Have a nice day.⚡💥
your a godamn legend man
I love u since this video came up
11 years old Jacob be like
oooohhh arcssss :D
hahaha "Proper Capacitor", hahaha, damn I love when You say "I popped It" or "I want flames", thanks for all those cool vids Photon, You are my personal hero :)
I would love love to see how to build a rectifier I want one turning a Tombstone arc welder into a tig setup!!
were the hell did you get that bridge rectifier
DIY
Would you believe they just leave those things on top of tall poles outside where any fool with a screwdriver can take them?
William Barnes don’t mind if I fuckin do!
@TecStuff electroboom? 😁
what would appent if you connect ten o these in parallel? (other than creating a black hole)
Ruben Fasola
You would create something, even photonicinduction wouldn't mess with
You'd get 10x the amps. Try charging them in parallel and put them in series for disscharging, then you get 10x the voltage :D
Best channel on youtube by far :)
i love this one, having fun
In photonicinductuion we trust
4:08 This is why i love this chanel
-bounce, bounce, bounce- "~In the name of science!~" -bounce, bounce, bounce-
*banana explodes*
"oh dear"
lol
please do a large subwoofer vs a capacitor like that, warning for possible high emf
Why capacitor doesn't explode when you short it ? I always discharge caps using bulb or resistor.
+Lost In Space Electronics lol jk I do sometimes but short it for good measure
"you will be bead before you hit the floor" 😂😂😂
this is a well known british saying at least in southeast anyway
Didn't know that :)
lazerus, I was just going to post the same request. A "meat demo" on that cap would be a violent demonstration of fleshy destruction... a most-worthy photon vid.