Thats exactly what my partner always laughed at, on our first summer hoilidays on southern european islands: Me making more photos of those weird, messy powerlines and transformators than photos at the pool or beach. If you want to become an electrician here, the first thing you learn is, that current can only flow through wires if they are 100% straight and all turns exactly 90 degrees. Powerlines of course have to be digged properly in the the ground to prevent birds from sitting on them in messy formations and poop on our clean roofs and gardens ;-)
"I don't know what the standard is anymore" Mehdi, I am disappointed. The standard is, and has always been, "Color coordinated until I run out of a color."
Ohhh...so that's why it looks as if a unicorn pooped into my fusebox! I knew it was a mistake to hire the shady guy on the street when he offered "I do anything you want for 5 bucks."
In the US (probably Canada, too) the standard is as follows: Green (inc. with stripe) or bare is ground White or gray is neutral Literally anything else is live Usually in 120v land black is the only color used for live unless there are different live wires in one place. Red is usually the second color, often used for the second live in some 240v circuits or for switched live in regular 120v circuits. Blue is the usual third color but is much less common in residential applications.
3:04 this jumpscared me. I was looking at the meter and was wearing headphones with the volume blasting. you know its a good electroboom video when even the veiwer is not safe from electricity.
@@SheIITear I haven't written in cursive for maybe more than 15 years now, but I too can still read it perfectly fine. But I did use it extensively up until high school, so it's pretty much stuck in my brain.
as a chemistry student, I love seeing 8:21 where copper ions are being ripped off the positive terminal and the electrode is interacting with the salt ion solution in the water creating the brown/orange color in the solution. Surprised the ions aren't creating precipitate at the bottom of the solution (copper density is much higher than most forms of salt)
At this point, I'm pretty sure Mehdi's wife and daughter are behind camera with a fire extinguisher, a direct line to the fire station, their lawyers and the insurance company... But then again, we're getting quality education, so from my point of view, it's totally worth it.
I hear people shit talk him a lot saying he doesn't know what he's doing. Then I bring up that if he didn't know what he was doing he would have been dead by now. he's basically taking the Steve Erwin approach, Educate them with controlled danger and keep them engaged :).
Chlorine gas, anyway, yeah (mustard gas has carbon and sulfur in it). I always figured Mehdi would die trying to to do some high voltage stunt for a video, but with how close his face was to that glass when he was generating chlorine, maybe I'm wrong.
@@Urbansprint5100 Yes, but he survived that (and will likely be much more careful in the future). That was a danger he knew of beforehand. I don't know if he was aware at the time that he was essentially huffing chlorine in this video.
The neighbors: should we meet our new neighbor? Let's go over now! The neighbor: *zapping sounds* S*** F*** F****** S*** The neighbors: maybe we should meet him some other day...
I own a home and I learned plumbing, I learned drywall, I even learned masonry. I learned almost everything about being a good homeowner except I never learned about electricity because I just didn't want to kill myself. Seeing you pull of your circuit breaker box cover makes me want to learn more about electricity. You are inspiring a new generation of homeowners to learn more about the magic in their walls. Thanks for the videos, they're all so great!
For those wondering why it's so expensive, the argument of which party that covers the cost from Line-to-Meter depends from place to place. And I'm genuinely glad you were forced to replace the incoming power line as it is true that a lot of older houses have a live line that's grand-fathered in where you can literally just grab it. Safety first. Also, from my limited though fairly extensive work with a power company: with a dense area like that, a 200A meter could possibly require a bigger pole transformer to keep the current stable. And a bigger transformer might require a bigger pole. And a thicker pole, depending on what's currently there , might have to be taller to meet pole sway/safety regulations. And a taller pole means the entire line of poles will have to be taller, or else the 1-PH line would be strung too tight in that one spot. So in short, in order to install a single 200A meter, one transformer and several poles, and of course their own transformers, may have to be replaced. Working on these old radials can just be that much of a bitch. And while I would almost humor the idea of taking a 1-PH from the pole to an underground transformer and then running a line to a 200A meter on the house, that would probably be too expensive for what it's worth, even if they could get a bore back there. I don't envy the designer for this, as my previous company HATED meter-poles. (Mostly because of the fights about "who owns what?" if that pole breaks) Lastly, that radial power line should be designed to meet a certain specification, probably an old average of 100A per house. So, if you're ever building a new house, you'll probably hear that 200A is the minimum now, but again, that depends on the area.
In Europe we have 230V between phase and neutral and 400V between phases.3 phase service is common and a 3 phase 32 Amp service has the power like a 240V 100 Amp service.
I don't know the exact figures but the power company doesn't need to supply 200a to everyone at the same time. If there are 10 houses each with 100a service I'd be surprised if the power company would need to have more than a 500a transformer.
@@eDoc2020 Now I know you're right and I agree with you. But then I remember listening to my co-workers who had the joy of working for the state. There's being right, and then there's having to placate people who don't know what you're talking about and just say, "Future Proof it!" possibly just to sound smart. There's Pros and Cons with regulation. And yes, it does make sense to want to catch these outlining cases. A Utility Should be a service to the people after all, and should catch as many cases as it can. Even if the data shows that the majority won't use over 100A. Again, Pros and Cons in regulation, but IMO, the pros generally outweigh the cons for the client side.
Yeah looks dodgy compared to Central and Northeuropean Standards. Greets from a German Electrician. Single Phase for a whole neighborhood seems like a really cheap idea also these ugly Pole Transformer 😨
@@Stefflus agreed, that fuse box alone had me stressed with all those large bare contact surfaces available to touch. Nevermind the mindboggling spiderweb of cables on the poles in the street.
Vano Scrap yeah, I was at a house by saltwater and one of the phases from the trans disintegrated over time, and half the house had power. I was confused af when I woke up thinking it was a power surge
Kilodollars should definitely be a more commonly used term. Or even kilobucks, rolls off the tongue nicely. Price of a new car? 30 kilobucks Big fancy house? 1.21 megabucks!
Hey Mehdi, on the point of the outlets I presume the UK system of shutters on power outlets wouldn't work on North American outlets because the (normal) UK system demands an earth pin on the plug to enable the shutters on the line & neutral to be opened - therefore two pin plugs don't exist in the UK system, whereas elsewhere (including North America) two pin plugs are common for powering devices which are Class B (double) insulated. The mainland European outlets (both the French & "Schuko" systems) have their line & neutral holes covered by shutters in the same way that the outlets in your new house are, whereby equal pressure is required to be applied to both holes for the shutters to open. Incidently, the UK standards do allow for "equal pressure" shutters on the outlets as well but in my experience this is very uncommon compared to the "earth pin" displacement system. So are the new outlets in your new home "safer" than the old, unshielded outlet? I'd say yes, definitely. To defeat the mechanism you'll need two small mental pin things that are pressed in at the same time in each hole and the average toddler or small child likely won't have the understanding or the cognitive ability to do this by accident. It's not 100% idiot proof, but neither is the UK earth pin displacement system whereby the holes for the line & neutral are big enough, should they defeat the shutter mechanism with just one object stuck into the earth hole, for a baby or toddler's small fingers to go into the line & neutral holes. Thankfully, in the UK such stories are very rare. Sorry for going on one!
Yeah I understand its better for toddlers, but it is usually older kids sticking stuff in there! Toddlers can't aim! UK outlets better in that at least the kid needs to shove one thing in ground with one hand, and so would have one more hand to shove in live tripping the RCD. In north America they have to shove between live and neutral, which means nothing will trip either! I don't know, I have to design my own safe plug!
@@owenoreilly_20 That's pretty much standard in the U.S. at least. Is Canada different or just his city? I'm really curious how/where that's his problem and not the city's/power company's.
@@owenoreilly_20 Yah it all depends on the area. My grandparents had to pay 6k USD to get a new meter installed because the power company said it was out of date and since it was on their property they had to swallow the bill
@@conortimm733 Honestly, if i had the money in that situation, i would just refuse and let them disconnect it and setup off grid solar out of spite and irritation. The power meter is the power company's property, you legally cant tamper with it, so why should a home owner have to pay for it if it legally is not their property.
Why is Donald Trump pretty and I am not? But why does he only have a wife but I have TWO HOT GIRLFRIENDS who I show off in my masterpiece YT videos? Do you know the answer, dear snow
No! Mehdi: whatever is him, I'm outta here!! [Runs away and tips the camera over] Photonicinduction: I fear nothing, but those things... [Kreosan's microwave gun, 4 microwave transformers, homemade Chernobyl and 1 MV DC voltage supply] Photonicinduction: they.. scare me...
"Hello mister Mehdi, buying electric supplies again, eh?" "Indeed. Wait, what's that giant red tank on your lawn?" Neighbor who bought industrial high-voltage exitnguishing system: "No reason in particular"
Wait I had a thought in my mind as medhi says as long as your not connected to ground or touching neutral and are completely floating in air you wouldnt feel any electricity flowing through your body? So if I get hit by a lightning in mid air if I was hypothetically floating nothing would happen?
Interesting question! You would die! Because if there was no path through your body, lightening wouldn't jump to you in the first place. If it jumps to you, it is because you are in its plasma channel-way!
@@ElectroBOOM I really like your question Mathew. Sheet lightning (intra-cloud) might not hurt you, neither would hitting the ground. However if you were unlucky enough to avoid seizures, immediate cardiac arrest, and severe burns due to ionisation of your skin, and depending on height of fall, a broken bone or ten dozen, etc... maybe somebody else might notice something happened.
Thank you so much for making these videos. I have learned so much information from your videos, it has helped me impress my grandpa, who is an electrician, and inspire to become an electrician. I can not say thank you enough and you are amazing ElectroBoom.
When I re-did the wiring for our old farm-house, many of the circuits (even the ones where the code doesn't require it) got upgraded to AFCI. They were more expensive at the time, but peace of mind is totally worth it.
The house looks much better compared to the last time we saw it! Glad you're hanging around still making videos during this tough time too! Also, I just wanted to mention you should review Magfast extreme. Evidently, it's so powerful of a battery, that it can jump start a dozen vehicles on a single charge. I'd love to see a video on explaining or dismantling and examinating the product!
I was , at the beginning , disappointed and about to leave when he says about house tour . And ...He paused at the sight of fuse panel , I kept watching his breakers . Fascinated now !
It's so strange to see the high voltage wires of each house running up in the air... in Italy every wiring (internet, current ecc..) is ran underneath the ground
In the Netherlands, all (and I mean ALL) utilitarian connections are delivered to the houses underground. Even at farms all stuff is delivered underground and only stuff above ground are the high voltage lines coming from the powerplants to the area transformers . From the transformer down we bury all cables at at least 2 feet or more into the ground
Most of high voltage wires in Lithuania is either in air or underground. For long distances and in large neighbourhoods it's in the air. For villages and small towns it's mostly underground.
Congrats for your new house. I really like the contents of your channel. Maybe you are not going into to the most deepest explanations, but its enough explained to be understandable for mortals like me and the work and pattience to create a scientific /electrician / electrocuted content to be soft and creative to diggest is a really good skill to being a good teacher for life, not for a grade. Congrats for the house, the work that you make and the effort that you put on your daily work will be compensated with good opportunities and more. Sorry if i misspell, but i hope that you will understand my best wishes for you and your family in your new house
I know. I watch people set off kilos of dynamite and C-4 explosives and do all sorts of crazy stuff, but this is the only channel that makes jump and make weird noises. By the end I feel like I've overdosed on coffee. It must be like a rollercoaster though because I keep coming back for more.
Sir Mehdi, i always learn something on your vlog. I always get high scores on my grades when i learn about electricity. I'm watching from Philippines tho🇵🇭🇵🇭🇵🇭
While that wiring is very reminiscent of where I live, every transformer only supplies one or 2 houses directly. That "bus" supplying 6 houses terrifies me
In Eastern and Central Europe we still have bare wire on poles with porcelain insulator.And I actually like it,it looks cool.But the aerial bundled black cable is ugly.
@@tr33c21 I would hope so, because you should have relatively new wiring. If your house was from the 20's there is no way it is getting insured with period wiring.
I'm not sure it's purely a time thing. The transformers/substations that supply our houses are probably older than his house, and they're most likely from 1950s (post war housing estates built in my area after the blitz bombing in Liverpool). The fact that every house on these estates were built at the same time probably meant it was easy to lay down all the power lines at once. In the UK most houses are very close together, or connected, so I guess having your power lines dangling everywhere in cramped streets was a little dangerous.
Every good house tour starts with the breaker panel
1 HOUR AGO??? WTF
HOW DID YOU COMMENT LIKE 54 MINUTES B4 HE POST IT
Imagine having guests over and showing them your breakers first. Look at them!
do people not know what Patreon is
@@j.albert2311 what is it
"Tour of my New House", then he shows just the electric panel, wiring, polls, transformers, and a power outlet. I love it!
I excpected the whole house tour including bedroom, kitchen, and such
I was not dissaopinted at the end
that's all we needed
Welcome to the future
The only part that really matters anyways.
3:03 Well I expect this in his new house which is new blowup lol
Normal people: "So we are going to begin the tour with the new Living room"
Mehdi: "THIS IS OUR FUSE PANEL :D"
That's what i was gonna say. 😂😂
coz thats what we all came here for!
That will be the most used thing in house. So it's pretty important
HEY THAT'S EXACTLY HOW ME AND MEHDI DO, WE LOVE ELECTRICITY
"This is our fuse panel!"
(That he installed himself. 😀)
Others: My balcony has a Beach View
Mehdi: Look at that Transformer and transmission line view
😂
Thats exactly what my partner always laughed at, on our first summer hoilidays on southern european islands: Me making more photos of those weird, messy powerlines and transformators than photos at the pool or beach.
If you want to become an electrician here, the first thing you learn is, that current can only flow through wires if they are 100% straight and all turns exactly 90 degrees. Powerlines of course have to be digged properly in the the ground to prevent birds from sitting on them in messy formations and poop on our clean roofs and gardens ;-)
There's a short circuit from the room and he's like what's going on here what the hell is going on here
"THAT TRANSFORMER IS LITERALLY SO DELICIOUS, I WANT TO LICK THE LIVE OUTPUT SO BAD, ISN'T MY NEW HOUSE GREAT?"
-Mehdi probably
"I don't know what the standard is anymore"
Mehdi, I am disappointed. The standard is, and has always been, "Color coordinated until I run out of a color."
Ohhh...so that's why it looks as if a unicorn pooped into my fusebox! I knew it was a mistake to hire the shady guy on the street when he offered "I do anything you want for 5 bucks."
i wanted to like but it’s 69 likes
@you sir made a mistake a proper way to answer was "nice"
In the US (probably Canada, too) the standard is as follows:
Green (inc. with stripe) or bare is ground
White or gray is neutral
Literally anything else is live
Usually in 120v land black is the only color used for live unless there are different live wires in one place. Red is usually the second color, often used for the second live in some 240v circuits or for switched live in regular 120v circuits. Blue is the usual third color but is much less common in residential applications.
@@alisafa2146 now it's 691
Some time soon:
"I need a better high voltage supply." _looks outside the window at the power pole_
Big brain power intensifies
LMFAOSHIWOABANHVPS (try to figure it out of you want)
Yeah😂😂😂
First thing i thought about was trailer park boys
@@tinycup45 lmfao so hard it would??? maybe then what?
I love how his editing is getting better everyday I mean just look, he made my day by just nudging audible's image with his hand.
SAME
Where? At the end? I didn't notice it
He has an editor. He said it.
@@RobertPucovsky at 4:04
The part where he makes his eyes bigger was hilarious xD Nice video!
3:00 now his house is officially his house
Great comment
Only ElectroBOOM starts a house tour with "THIS IS OUR FUSE PANEL"
And *BANG* "F**K" "I Guess the house is initiated to electroboom now "
But VERY good info to know. I've housesat for folks & when I ask where the breaker box is I get blank stares.
I would do the exact same thing. That's how we role....electrical engineers unite....
😂😂😂
And latter shows the electric pole outside his house
3:04 this jumpscared me. I was looking at the meter and was wearing headphones with the volume blasting. you know its a good electroboom video when even the veiwer is not safe from electricity.
Jake McLean In most of his videos, he always make short circuits or blow up capacitors.
Jake, really same here, I jumpscared, as I was watching the meta.....
Yea , although i am familiar with his videos but that got me 😅
damn, it was really effective this time
I threw my phone up...
Good that I caught it when it came back down.
"Mommy, the new weird neighbor is talking with utility poles again"
"I know honey, I'm scared too"
Tautvydas Pudzmys lol
"He's cackling again, and I see sparks!"
"Don't look directly at the plasma arc honey, just keep walking!"
"For some reason our lights keep dimming since he moved in."
Rat Kindler and his windows are always lit up like the 4th of july
@@klinky is that gravity falls refference?
No? Bruh
4:27 "10-11kV I think, I wish I could access it to measure it accurately, but it would be my last day though" LOL
I expect a jumpscare every time he gets his fingers close to elecric wires
Lol PTSD
Can i help you
Vay be ElectroBoom izleyen başka bir Türk buldum
I almost drop me phon, I forget who this guy is. 🤣
i literally jumped on my chair lmao
normal people when showing their house: here's the hall, then the kitchen, etc!
Mehdi: 𝓉𝒽𝒾𝓈 𝒾𝓈 𝑜𝓊𝓇 𝒻𝓊𝓈𝑒 𝓅𝒶𝓃𝑒𝓁!
**screams with joy**
I can't read cursive
@@_SkyZ same
Is cursive really that dead? I was able to read it without any problems and can still write it somehow :d
@@SheIITear I haven't written in cursive for maybe more than 15 years now, but I too can still read it perfectly fine. But I did use it extensively up until high school, so it's pretty much stuck in my brain.
To me it looks like [x], I think thats an unknown character in my phone
Mehdi moves to a new house,
The house's fuse panel: MY TIME HAS COME...
Fun fact: Every-time Mehdi says “Let me measure that for you”, something goes bad.
Or "let's plug it in"
Yep, specifically when he says "Ok so now I am going to plug it in" lol
Lol
Or "Let me demonstrate"
Man, i like when he says "Let's plug it in". He says it in such an enthusiastic way and then "aaawwww f%$#".
Imagine this guys physical...
Doc- “sir have you had any near death experiences?”
“Yeah I can name a few”
hundred
@@thinhnonyt million
I'm more guessing he'd say "lots - which one is still killing me?" In the most dramatic way possible
A few?🤷
WHY DID YOU ASK
Mehdi: Without further ado, lets show you around the house.
**show fuse panel**
🤣🤣🤣
“It’s so quiet here, I can’t yell” best line ever
Why can’t anyone like my comments?
@@wilsonnenovembre9414 as I read your comment, I felt like not liking your comment. Don't know why 🤷♂️
he forgot about the bird
@@electro-magnetik528 definitely felt like liking yours
Post video
as a chemistry student, I love seeing 8:21 where copper ions are being ripped off the positive terminal and the electrode is interacting with the salt ion solution in the water creating the brown/orange color in the solution. Surprised the ions aren't creating precipitate at the bottom of the solution (copper density is much higher than most forms of salt)
There is no positive electrode. AC changes direction, polarity at 60 or 50 Hz.
He's like a talktative engineer version of Mr.Bean
Mr.Bean is also electrical engineer
@@bisheshkumar9880 Correct. Although he chose to become an Actor instead.
Keiztrat good thing he did
@@keiztrat9109 he chose to act to feed his car habit.
Hi
At this point, I'm pretty sure Mehdi's wife and daughter are behind camera with a fire extinguisher, a direct line to the fire station, their lawyers and the insurance company...
But then again, we're getting quality education, so from my point of view, it's totally worth it.
Making us think that is the real skill of Mehdi though.
Now the question is,
that profile is cursed
@@geekycow he gives education through pain.
I hear people shit talk him a lot saying he doesn't know what he's doing. Then I bring up that if he didn't know what he was doing he would have been dead by now. he's basically taking the Steve Erwin approach, Educate them with controlled danger and keep them engaged :).
@@uberLejoe I know Mehdi's a genius, I don't doubt it... Basically he's just being funny.
Mehdi moves to new house
Circuit Breaker in New House : "I am in danger"
Fareeq Abel Hammed circuit breaker in new house : resistance is futile
3:00 Just when I thought this would be a peaceful video, this happened with earphones in full volume
I feel you bruh. It feels like i got zapped through my mobile.
He’s the only youtuber that would be excited to show you his fuse panel.
Him and Technology Connections
Hey i just watched technology connections video on fuses
@@adiabd1 same!
Didn't 'that Linus guy' get excited about some wiring updates and stuff in a few of his videos?
@@robertoXCX I just wanted to add that.
Mehdi literally making chlorine mustard gas in his room: "I dunno man im confused..."
Chlorine gas, anyway, yeah (mustard gas has carbon and sulfur in it). I always figured Mehdi would die trying to to do some high voltage stunt for a video, but with how close his face was to that glass when he was generating chlorine, maybe I'm wrong.
Almost anything that turns that type of color is dangerous
@@Bryan-Hensley That's probably corrosion from the copper wires. It doesn't do that if you cover them in aluminum foil first.
@@jeffspaulding9834 I mean you saw the jacob's ladder video when he almost grabbed both sides as it fell over, right?
@@Urbansprint5100 Yes, but he survived that (and will likely be much more careful in the future). That was a danger he knew of beforehand. I don't know if he was aware at the time that he was essentially huffing chlorine in this video.
The thumbnail .....is a masterpiece
"Not my house" HAAHAHAHAH
Always is
Totally.
i didnt even see the thumbnail i just saw electroboom and i clicked
Ha XD it’s Bath Abbey
[Muffled scream, explosion and lights flickering]
Mehdi's Wife - "Ah, he must be making a new video"
Mommy is daddy okay?
@@GunnarTobus daddies just on fire and is jst sleeping.. oh and his friends are here to pick him up
It is not Mehdi's wife
it is ELECTROWIFE
lmao
Mehdi: Don’t try this at home!
Also Mehdi: *Tries it in a home he just moved into*
That's cause he is a CERTIFIED DUMMY
The neighbors: should we meet our new neighbor? Let's go over now!
The neighbor: *zapping sounds* S*** F*** F****** S***
The neighbors: maybe we should meet him some other day...
He almost die in every video!
@@happyalltheday2275 he's immortal!!
@@_SkyZ an Absolute Electroman
3:05 Not gonna lie, that scared the piss outta me.
I came prepared. I knew what was coming.
Still pooped a little
Yeah me too.
Same lol
@@biosorss1285 Correct man gave a heart attack
honestly I knew something was gonna happen, but I didn't think it would be that loud or extreme. I shook so hard
"the stupid kid would have to..." does exactly what he says.
I own a home and I learned plumbing, I learned drywall, I even learned masonry. I learned almost everything about being a good homeowner except I never learned about electricity because I just didn't want to kill myself. Seeing you pull of your circuit breaker box cover makes me want to learn more about electricity. You are inspiring a new generation of homeowners to learn more about the magic in their walls. Thanks for the videos, they're all so great!
Other people when house tour: This is my new bedroom
Mehdi when house tour: This is my new breaker box
Intellectual's word
Bruh who's that lad on your pfp?
@@bmhater1283 that's rozaliya from honkai impact 3rd (mobile game)
Aye fellow captains
For those wondering why it's so expensive, the argument of which party that covers the cost from Line-to-Meter depends from place to place. And I'm genuinely glad you were forced to replace the incoming power line as it is true that a lot of older houses have a live line that's grand-fathered in where you can literally just grab it. Safety first.
Also, from my limited though fairly extensive work with a power company: with a dense area like that, a 200A meter could possibly require a bigger pole transformer to keep the current stable. And a bigger transformer might require a bigger pole. And a thicker pole, depending on what's currently there , might have to be taller to meet pole sway/safety regulations. And a taller pole means the entire line of poles will have to be taller, or else the 1-PH line would be strung too tight in that one spot.
So in short, in order to install a single 200A meter, one transformer and several poles, and of course their own transformers, may have to be replaced. Working on these old radials can just be that much of a bitch.
And while I would almost humor the idea of taking a 1-PH from the pole to an underground transformer and then running a line to a 200A meter on the house, that would probably be too expensive for what it's worth, even if they could get a bore back there. I don't envy the designer for this, as my previous company HATED meter-poles. (Mostly because of the fights about "who owns what?" if that pole breaks)
Lastly, that radial power line should be designed to meet a certain specification, probably an old average of 100A per house. So, if you're ever building a new house, you'll probably hear that 200A is the minimum now, but again, that depends on the area.
In Europe we have 230V between phase and neutral and 400V between phases.3 phase service is common and a 3 phase 32 Amp service has the power like a 240V 100 Amp service.
Mucho texto.
I don't know the exact figures but the power company doesn't need to supply 200a to everyone at the same time. If there are 10 houses each with 100a service I'd be surprised if the power company would need to have more than a 500a transformer.
@@eDoc2020 Now I know you're right and I agree with you. But then I remember listening to my co-workers who had the joy of working for the state. There's being right, and then there's having to placate people who don't know what you're talking about and just say, "Future Proof it!" possibly just to sound smart.
There's Pros and Cons with regulation. And yes, it does make sense to want to catch these outlining cases. A Utility Should be a service to the people after all, and should catch as many cases as it can. Even if the data shows that the majority won't use over 100A. Again, Pros and Cons in regulation, but IMO, the pros generally outweigh the cons for the client side.
Being an electrician in Norway, I feel like every electrical installation I see on youtube looks dodgy. Ohh well, grats on the new house!
Yeah looks dodgy compared to Central and Northeuropean Standards. Greets from a German Electrician. Single Phase for a whole neighborhood seems like a really cheap idea also these ugly Pole Transformer 😨
@@Srype5 exactly! Most new houses here has 400v tn-cs into the house and you just use l1, l2 or l3 with neutral for 230v
@@Stefflus agreed, that fuse box alone had me stressed with all those large bare contact surfaces available to touch. Nevermind the mindboggling spiderweb of cables on the poles in the street.
Vano Scrap yeah, I was at a house by saltwater and one of the phases from the trans disintegrated over time, and half the house had power. I was confused af when I woke up thinking it was a power surge
@@Stefflus TN-S is standard in Germany nowadays. A few decades ago it was TN-C but it got wiped out of code like 30 or 40 years ago.
This suddenly became my favourite channel on TH-cam, my comfort zone, my night time fun, thanks Mehdi!
Everyone : how big is the house
Mehdi : dOeS It HaVE gFCi Or RcI
Real men ask the right question
rcd dude👍
Bästard.
MEDHIE
It can run 200 Amps!
"Over 10 kHz... I mean $10,000"
I think you mean to 10 k$
Kilodollars should definitely be a more commonly used term.
Or even kilobucks, rolls off the tongue nicely.
Price of a new car? 30 kilobucks
Big fancy house? 1.21 megabucks!
MotoCat I mean why do you think people call it 10k (also a proper house would clearly cost 1.21 gigabucks)
@@MotoCat91 we should use more engineering notation in money
I think what he meant was $10K HURTS!
@@Nosirrbro 1,21 gigabucks?? We are talking about 1 billion+
A good inclusion for the new house is a "days since last accident" sign
Yeah. He can even save some money and buy a used one with all the numbers missing. It will always be at zero anyways.
Days?
More like Minutes?
@@JPR3D Minutes? Generous!
Milliseconds is accurate.
Medhi: Hello i am your new neighbor
Neighbor: Hello its nice meeting yo-
Mehdi: WHERE IS THE BREAKER PANEL?
Man, the comments are the best part
“Let me give you a house tour”
*Proceeds to tell us how power works in apartments and houses*
Hey Mehdi, on the point of the outlets I presume the UK system of shutters on power outlets wouldn't work on North American outlets because the (normal) UK system demands an earth pin on the plug to enable the shutters on the line & neutral to be opened - therefore two pin plugs don't exist in the UK system, whereas elsewhere (including North America) two pin plugs are common for powering devices which are Class B (double) insulated. The mainland European outlets (both the French & "Schuko" systems) have their line & neutral holes covered by shutters in the same way that the outlets in your new house are, whereby equal pressure is required to be applied to both holes for the shutters to open. Incidently, the UK standards do allow for "equal pressure" shutters on the outlets as well but in my experience this is very uncommon compared to the "earth pin" displacement system.
So are the new outlets in your new home "safer" than the old, unshielded outlet? I'd say yes, definitely. To defeat the mechanism you'll need two small mental pin things that are pressed in at the same time in each hole and the average toddler or small child likely won't have the understanding or the cognitive ability to do this by accident. It's not 100% idiot proof, but neither is the UK earth pin displacement system whereby the holes for the line & neutral are big enough, should they defeat the shutter mechanism with just one object stuck into the earth hole, for a baby or toddler's small fingers to go into the line & neutral holes. Thankfully, in the UK such stories are very rare.
Sorry for going on one!
Yeah I understand its better for toddlers, but it is usually older kids sticking stuff in there! Toddlers can't aim! UK outlets better in that at least the kid needs to shove one thing in ground with one hand, and so would have one more hand to shove in live tripping the RCD. In north America they have to shove between live and neutral, which means nothing will trip either! I don't know, I have to design my own safe plug!
Yes hello electroboom
why does this comment say 17 hours ago it says made 1 hour ago
@@ElectroBOOM 17 hours ago??? Wtf
Yeah it shows 17 hours ago for me too🤔🤔🤔
"Let me measure it for you"
Nonononono .. NOOOOO
You just don't learn from your previous mistakes. Aren't you mehdi ??
At 3:05, I knew it was coming but I jumped so hard, holy crap.
"Maybe I have to do it longer?" *continues to make chlorine gas*
And sodium hydroxide :D
Your accent makes my dad and I laugh. He's persian and was an electrician for several years.
Lol I thought ur pfp was kakyoin for a sec
@@physhishek3162 shut up simp
He says switch like SWEECHHHH, it’s amazing
As an Iranian myself, his accent is as Iranian as it gets lol
I love his accent,i find his voice truly relaxing to hear.
Me: Buys house.
One Day Later: Bedroom and kitchen set up.
One Month Later: Bedroom and kitchen set up.
Three Years Later: Bedroom and kitchen set up.
1000 years later:bedroom and kitchen set up
@@realhardik18: Archaeologists 20,000 years from now:
"Why the hell didn't he set up the rest of the house?"
30.000 years later: Buy a new house
Omg same
Congrats mate, you really deserved a new fuse panel !
Alternative Title: Testing the Electrical Limits of My New House!!!
Oh hey it's the top 10 wide president man. Lovely to meet the legend.
Top 10 wide electricians
“That would be like 10k dollars I can’t afford that!” The city: “oh sorry get screwed bud we don’t care about your finances”
Let's not even talk about the million or so dollars to buy Vancouver RE.
Bosstown Dynamics where I live anything until the meter is the electric company’s problem
@@owenoreilly_20 That's pretty much standard in the U.S. at least.
Is Canada different or just his city? I'm really curious how/where that's his problem and not the city's/power company's.
@@owenoreilly_20 Yah it all depends on the area. My grandparents had to pay 6k USD to get a new meter installed because the power company said it was out of date and since it was on their property they had to swallow the bill
@@conortimm733 Honestly, if i had the money in that situation, i would just refuse and let them disconnect it and setup off grid solar out of spite and irritation. The power meter is the power company's property, you legally cant tamper with it, so why should a home owner have to pay for it if it legally is not their property.
"I can't ever make a video"
Solution: make a video
golly gee that was easy
Why is Donald Trump pretty and I am not? But why does he only have a wife but I have TWO HOT GIRLFRIENDS who I show off in my masterpiece YT videos? Do you know the answer, dear snow
AxxL,
Wtf...?
TR actually stands for "Testing Receptacle" because those little doors hold the leads so well. Tamper Resistant was a marketing ploy.
"House is initiated to Electrboom"😲😂🔥
3:07
Moves to new house, Shorts power outlet to house
Mehdi: I guess the house is now initiated to Electroboom😂😂😂
7:03
Mehdi's Mind: I ain't afraid of Electricity, but that Transformer
S c a r e s me *Flashbacks*
No!
Mehdi: whatever is him, I'm outta here!! [Runs away and tips the camera over]
Photonicinduction: I fear nothing, but those things...
[Kreosan's microwave gun, 4 microwave transformers, homemade Chernobyl and 1 MV DC voltage supply]
Photonicinduction: they.. scare me...
Even if he is touching the electricity lines on whiteboard, I get anxious
Lol underrated
House tour: one room, breaker panel and outdoor power lines.
What more do you need
Covering the essentials
I bet whoever is gonna live near him , they will probably beg the government to build a firefighter station near him
"Hello mister Mehdi, buying electric supplies again, eh?"
"Indeed. Wait, what's that giant red tank on your lawn?"
Neighbor who bought industrial high-voltage exitnguishing system: "No reason in particular"
In all honesty, i appreciate you and all that you do.. best of blessings to you and your family 🙌
Whenever I show someone around my house, I first show them the breaker panel too.
His hand pointing something :
Everyone : *intense sweating
*Gets shocked with 11kilo volts*
"I guess it would stop a baby..."
*but not a Mehdi*
😬😬😬😩😣😖🤧
“Shockingly” nice tour!
"Maybe I'll buy an electric car in future to use it"
And yes. You certainly did
i'm sure he put it down as a "white board" and business expense though, so dont go ratting him out:P
“It is so quiet here I can’t yell”
Would this be a bad thing in the future?
@@Anino_Makata yes I believe
Canada lol
Most house tours: " here's the kitchen, living room just through there, 3 bedrooms upstairs"
Electroboom: *FUZEBOX*
2:04 when he said "now you see these.." as he moved his hand closer, I was so ready for something to spark.
I was legit scared ._.
"I wish I can access it to measure it properly" 😂😂😂😁🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
10:27 "it would be over 10khz. I mean over 10,000 dollars"
Had me dyin there
Mehdi: Don't try this at home.
me: I think he dosen't feel like being at home in his new place.
Wait I had a thought in my mind as medhi says as long as your not connected to ground or touching neutral and are completely floating in air you wouldnt feel any electricity flowing through your body? So if I get hit by a lightning in mid air if I was hypothetically floating nothing would happen?
Interesting question! You would die! Because if there was no path through your body, lightening wouldn't jump to you in the first place. If it jumps to you, it is because you are in its plasma channel-way!
@@ElectroBOOM I really like your question Mathew. Sheet lightning (intra-cloud) might not hurt you, neither would hitting the ground. However if you were unlucky enough to avoid seizures, immediate cardiac arrest, and severe burns due to ionisation of your skin, and depending on height of fall, a broken bone or ten dozen, etc... maybe somebody else might notice something happened.
*Mehdi
It's spelt M-E-H-D-I.
@@ElectroBOOM Thanks Mehdi
Thank you so much for making these videos. I have learned so much information from your videos, it has helped me impress my grandpa, who is an electrician, and inspire to become an electrician. I can not say thank you enough and you are amazing ElectroBoom.
10:30 10kHz = 10k Dollars
thats some awesome exchange rates 😂😂
3:05 That scared the crap out of me no cap
now you know why the channel is called ElectroBOOM! haha
When i saw him show us his breaker panel, i was like, "he's gonna get zapped, i swear he's gonna get zapped!"
Its almost like recognizing dangerous situations where you may be in danger is exactly the point of point of his whole getting shocked shtick
@@Stephan-wf1ec ok
I'm almost got heart attack
the way he points his fingers towards the bus bars..
When I re-did the wiring for our old farm-house, many of the circuits (even the ones where the code doesn't require it) got upgraded to AFCI. They were more expensive at the time, but peace of mind is totally worth it.
I didn't expect a house tour to be so interesting and entertaining !
also, E D I S O N L A M P S
First things first when getting a new house.
How many amps can the house take.
ARE THE FUSES GFCI OR RCI?!?!?!?!
@@soundspark That should do it. Should get a good short.
@@soundspark You watched any Phontonicinduction videos? He shorted with tools like wrenches and screwdrivers and melted them.
@@soundspark Not many
2021: ElectroBoom buys electric car
The next day: "Let's short the battery!"
Elon: "Bro..."
xD Love this guy
ElectroBoom after shorting the battery: *first car in space with actual driver inside*
Haha
The house looks much better compared to the last time we saw it! Glad you're hanging around still making videos during this tough time too! Also, I just wanted to mention you should review Magfast extreme. Evidently, it's so powerful of a battery, that it can jump start a dozen vehicles on a single charge. I'd love to see a video on explaining or dismantling and examinating the product!
I was , at the beginning , disappointed and about to leave when he says about house tour .
And ...He paused at the sight of fuse panel , I kept watching his breakers .
Fascinated now !
It's so strange to see the high voltage wires of each house running up in the air... in Italy every wiring (internet, current ecc..) is ran underneath the ground
In the land of North America, that’s how it usually is, in bigger neighborhoods it’s al underground, except the odd transformer box every few houses
In the Netherlands, all (and I mean ALL) utilitarian connections are delivered to the houses underground. Even at farms all stuff is delivered underground and only stuff above ground are the high voltage lines coming from the powerplants to the area transformers . From the transformer down we bury all cables at at least 2 feet or more into the ground
Most of high voltage wires in Lithuania is either in air or underground.
For long distances and in large neighbourhoods it's in the air.
For villages and small towns it's mostly underground.
Come to South Asia and you'll see madness dangling in the air. Seriously ppl in here doesn't know how to hide those cable underground
I've visited America a couple times and would always see street lights hanging on a cable, absolutely hilarious.
Now I realize why you haven't uploaded for so long, it's okay, you can take your time settling down!
I didn't watch ElectroBOOM for years and he did a house tour amazing!
Congrats for your new house.
I really like the contents of your channel.
Maybe you are not going into to the most deepest explanations, but its enough explained to be understandable for mortals like me and the work and pattience to create a scientific /electrician / electrocuted content to be soft and creative to diggest is a really good skill to being a good teacher for life, not for a grade.
Congrats for the house, the work that you make and the effort that you put on your daily work will be compensated with good opportunities and more.
Sorry if i misspell, but i hope that you will understand my best wishes for you and your family in your new house
One day I'll get heart attack while watching his videos.
When he was poking his finger near the bus bars of that panel, jesus...
@@felixmoran1 oh yeah that really got me nervous 😂
I know. I watch people set off kilos of dynamite and C-4 explosives and do all sorts of crazy stuff, but this is the only channel that makes jump and make weird noises. By the end I feel like I've overdosed on coffee. It must be like a rollercoaster though because I keep coming back for more.
@@karlharvymarx2650 I've just finished a cup dammit! My heart! 😆
Sir Mehdi, i always learn something on your vlog. I always get high scores on my grades when i learn about electricity. I'm watching from Philippines tho🇵🇭🇵🇭🇵🇭
Uh that's the Czech republic flag emoji
no i think its ph. check or search the phil. emoji flag
@@doramilitiakatiemelody1875 Its Obviously a Philippine flag. Czech has blue on the bottom side and white on top. Can u see it there?
@@edmonnavarroza317 oh my mistake sorry
NOBODY CARES WHAT COUNTRY ARE THEY WATCHING FROM
I like how honest he was in the thumbnail lol🤣
8:22 "I'm confused."
Seems like your house is confused too.
"I opened the fuse panel, because I can".
Sure !
PTSD: aight , so...
when he opened it and was pointing with his finger I was literally crying.
I knew it would happen, but when it went BANG it still made me jump! 🤣
2:30 if your sending 240 you use black and red. If it’s just 120v it doesn’t matter which color.
Congratulations you lovely electric condusive Persian! I like what you did!!
Always expect a BOOM when he is about to touch/measure something
Mehdi: So I bought a new house
Me: Much more space for him to blow things up
4:50 When I think that where I live, every town and village want their lines buried for aesthetics...
Before this video, I've only seen wiring like this in Kosovo and Vietnam.
While that wiring is very reminiscent of where I live, every transformer only supplies one or 2 houses directly. That "bus" supplying 6 houses terrifies me
In Eastern and Central Europe we still have bare wire on poles with porcelain insulator.And I actually like it,it looks cool.But the aerial bundled black cable is ugly.
4:20 when he was showing the electric pole I thought he is going to climb on the pole and .........
Literally same
hi today I will be measuring the output will be mehdi's last words
the twitching made me think his endeavor to touch it
3:05 FFS I was wearing headphones and actually jumped from my chair
this is like going decades back in time vs how the power lines etc are build in Denmark
It's almost like he moved into a house that is decades old....
@@TheOwenMajor i live in a house that is a century old and has better wiring lmao
@@tr33c21 I would hope so, because you should have relatively new wiring.
If your house was from the 20's there is no way it is getting insured with period wiring.
I'm not sure it's purely a time thing. The transformers/substations that supply our houses are probably older than his house, and they're most likely from 1950s (post war housing estates built in my area after the blitz bombing in Liverpool). The fact that every house on these estates were built at the same time probably meant it was easy to lay down all the power lines at once. In the UK most houses are very close together, or connected, so I guess having your power lines dangling everywhere in cramped streets was a little dangerous.
Oh man, this high voltage setup is crazy :D In Czechia it's like a paradise, even old houses got pretty good protection
I heard that in old czechoslovak wiring you had no ground wire for sockets and the ground conctact of the socket was connected to neutral.
4:30 actually Mehdi, that is a ground wire designed so that if lightning strikes it will hit that instead of the main power lines and cause a surge.